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-VOL. I. No. 3.-
THE
AMERICAN
" ANTI-SLAVERY
ALMANAC,
FOR
1888,
Being the second after Bissextile or Leap-Year, and the 62nd of American
Independence. Adapted to most parts of the United States.
" Thus saith the Lord, Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out
of the hand of the oppressor."
N. SOUTHARD, EDITOR.
BOSTON;
PUBLISHED BY ISAAC KNAPP.
No. 25, Comhill.
SB
Anti- Slavery Almanac.
[1838
TIDES.
In addition to the column giving the time of high water at Boston,
occasional remarKs respecting the height of the tides, are made in
the miscellaneous column. To consider the subject more particu-
larly, the highest tides in each lunation, or interval between two
successive changes of the moon, are those which happen a day 'and
a half, or the third tide after the change and full. These are called
Spring Tides. The lowest are those which happen about a day and a
half after the moon's quadratures, and which are called Neap Tides.
In the former case, the attractive forces of the sun and moon combine
to produce the greatest effect on the waters of the ocean, and in the
latter, the least, as these forces then operate in a manner against
each other. These circumstances are again affected by the distances
of the luminaries from the earth and their declinations ; the greatest
spring tides following those sj^zygies which happen when the sun and
moon are in the equinoctial, and at their least distances from the
earth. The highest spring tides therefore, happen about the equi-
noxes, and the lowest at mid-summer and mid-winter. It is import-
ant to know when to expect these very high tides on account of their
inundation of lands on the coast, and of their interference with some
of the labors and operations of sea ports.
In connection with this part of the subject, we have given two
'tables, the first of which exhibits the mean rise or difference between
high and low water at spring tide for several places on the coast ;
the second contains factors for finding the rise of any spring tide
during the year 1838. These factors were computed by M. Large-
teau, (by the formula which Laplace has given in the, Mecanique
Celeste, Vol. II. page 784, No. [2858], Dr. Bowditch's -transla-
tion), and are directly copied from the Connaissance des Terns. Their
use will be readily understood from the two following examples, it
being only necessary to multiply the mean rise from table I. by the
factor from table II. corresponding to the new or full moon at the
time required.
Required the rise of the new
moon spring tide at Boston,
March 25. ft.
Mean rise from table I. 11.
Factor from table II. 1.15
Required the rise of the full
moon spring tide at Portland,
June 8. . ft.
Mean rise, table I. 9.
Factor, table II. 0.79
Rise of spring tide req'rd 12.65 Rise of spring tide required 7.11
It can hardly be necessary to add that no calculation can reach the
effect of storms or long prevailing winds, which often cause a great
difference in the rise of all tides.
%The rise of the tides for all places throughout Massachusetts Bay
is nearly the same. On the coast of Maine great difference prevails,
the tides becoming very great toward New Brunswick ; still further
toward the head of the Bay of Fundy, they are really formidable, the
rise being in some places 70 feet. This, multiplied by the highest
factor of our table gives more than 81 feet, and furthermore, storms
have been known to increase the tides at one or two of these places,
to the rise of 120 feet.
1838]
Anti- Slavery Almanac.
Boston, i
Cape Ann,
EastporJ,
Kennebec,
Mount Desert,
Machias,
January 10
" 25
February 9
« 24
March
April
«
May
«
June
r. 11
11
25
9
12
12
Full
New
Full
New
Full
New
Full
New
Full
New
Full
New
TABLE I.
Newburyport, ft.
Portsmouth,
Salem,
Portland,
Plymouth,
Nantucket,
TABLE II.
Newport,
Providence,
New Haven,
New York,
Cape May,
0.84
0.76
0.97
0.82
1.12
0.86
1.16
0.85
1.05
0.79
0.80
0.77
0.81
The Calendar pages show the time of high water at Boston. For other places add
or subtract the numbers in the following table.
TABLE III.
Albany, - add 4h 12m I Philadelphia, - add 2h
Nantucket, - add 0 30 | Portland, - sub. 0
New Bedford, - sub. 3 53 I Portsmouth, N. H. sub- 0
New London, - sub. 2 36 | Providence, - sub. -3
New York, - sub. 2 21 I St. Johns, N. B. add 0
Newburyport, - sub. 0 15 | Vineyard Sound, sub 0
0.74
0.99
0.80
1.12
0.86
1.15
0.87
1.04
0.82
0.87
0.79
0.76
July
it
August
u
September
u
October
u
November
a
December
7
21
5
19
4
18
3
18
1
17
1
16
30
Full
New
Full
New
Full
New
Full
New
FuU
New
Full
New
Full
57m
45
15
05
30
30
TABLE IV. ASTRONOMICAL CHARACTERS.
©0 Sun,
8 Mercury,
V Venus,
d" Mars,
HP Ariea,
B Taurus,
n Gemini,
23 Cancer,
A Leo,
HR Virgo,
§ Vesta,
Q Juno,
$ Pallas,
5 Ceres,
Ram,
Bull,
Twins,
Crab,
Lion,
Virgin,
% Jupiter, 5 First Quar.
Tj Saturn, O F. Moon,
}$. Uranus, d Last Quar.
9 N. Moon, D Quartile,
SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC.
<$ Conjunction,
8 Opposition
Q Ascending Node,
y Descending Node.
Head,
Neck,
Arms,
Breast,
Heart,
Belly,
m
Libra, Scales,
Scorpio, Scorpion,
f Sagitarius, Archer,
£* C V> Capricomus, Goat,
£ < ~ Aquarius, Waterman,
> t X Pisces, Fishes,
Reins,
Secrets,
Thighs,
Knees,
Legs,
Feet.
The Frontispiece. — The tree in the middle is slavery. An abolition-
ist, with the axe immediatism, is laying heavy blows at the root. A
gang of mobocratg from the rum-shop are making donations of eggs,
stones, Sec. but they go against slavery. On the other side a D. D., the
champion and representative of a corrupt church, stands first among
those who, instead of holding back the arm of the abolitionist, try to
hold up the tottering trunk of oppression. He is assisted by our
northern civil and military office-holders, as well as by the whole mil-
itary force of the nation, while the merchant, standing on his ledger,
exerts his utmost strength, and the president of the U. S. volunteer!
his veto power, for the same purpose. They had better ' stand from
under7 the falling tree, if they would not be crushed beneath it.
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ECLIPSES IN THE YEAR 1838.
7. There will be four eclipses this year, two of the Sun and two of the
Moon.
1. An Eclipse of th Sun, March 25, visible to all parts of the
United States. It will be visible to the wes, par of South America,
and west and south of this, to the south part of the Pacific Ocean, it
will be visible and total.
2. A partial Eclipse of the Moon, April 9, visible throughout the
United States as follows.
D. H. M
Beginning, 9 7 46 eve. }
9 13 " J
u
Middle, 9
Apparent time.
Magnitude of the
Eclipse 7 digits on the
End, 9 10 39 * ) Northern Limb.
3. An Eclipse of the Sun, Sept. 18, visible throughout the United
States j at Boston as follows.
D. H. M.
Beginning, .... 18 4 6 eve. J - Magnitude of the
Greatest obscuration, 18 4 52 " [ Ap. time. Eclipse, 11 digits on
End, 18 6 5 " } the Southern limb.
From New York to North Carolina this Eclipse will be Annular.
At Washington, it will be Central. The North-eastern limit of the
Annular phase is the South-west corner of Connecticut.
4. An Eclipse of the Moon, Oct. 3, invisible to all parts of the U. S.
EQUATION OF TIME.
Many of our friends and patrons have manifested a partiali ty to keep-
ing their reckoning by apparent time. Instead of yielding the point to
the clock, they wish to consider the middle of the day as the true
noon, which certainly seems the most natural way of the two, and is
an many accounts more convenient. "We have therefore departed so
much from our original course and the fashion of the day, as to con
form our calculations to apparent, or solar time. If you wish to set a
clock which should keep mean time, observe when the sun is on the
meridian by a noon-mark or sun-dial ; — then if the sun is slow, add
the equation, if fast, subtract it, from 12 o'clock, and it gives the
true clock time. Thus you will find at apparent noon, June 1, the
true time is llh. 57m. 26s. June 30, it is 12h. 3m. 12s.
As for the weather, although we may be deemed behind the refine-
ment of the times, we are still determined to have now and then a
guess at it, hit or miss. Our prognostics are founded on the table
which we published last year, and we hope that at least, they will be
found as often right as wrong j at any rate, we shall endeavor not to
confound winter snows with summer showers.
" EXPLANATION OF THE CALENDAR PAGES.
The 3d column shows the time of the sun's rising and setting ; the
4th the days' length ; 5th the days' increase j 6th equation of time.
[See above.] The 7th column shows the time when the moon is on
the meridian ; the 8th the time of the moon's rising and setting ; the
9th the time of high water ; 3ie 10th the moon's place. The mean-
ing of the characters may be learned from table IV. on page 3.
1838] Anti-Slavery Almanac.
TO THE PUBLIC.
In appearing the third time to spread before you the foul blood-
guiltiness and imminent peril of this oppressive nation, I have reason
to bless God for the candid hearing which has heretofore been ex-
tended to me. Not less than seventy thousand copies of the two
former numbers of this little annual have gone abroad to stir up the
drowsy conscience of the nation. The time is now evidently near at
hand, when the question is to be finally settled, whether we shall, as
a people, turn from our sins and live, or cleave to our sins and be
cashed in pieces. We need only to look at the slave code by the
side of God's law, to be convinced that slavery is at irreconcilable
war with every principle of God's moral government. Either
His throne must be overturned that slavery may stand, or slavery
must be annihilated that God's government may triumph over every
high thing that exalteth itself against him.
But what has the north to do with slavery ? asks the objector, with
a confident air, which implies that we are not partners in this
Heaven-defying iniquity; — while we are constantly thrusting men
into slavery, who have fled to us for protection, while we are voting
for the extension and perpetuation of slavery by admitting new
states to the partnership >of guilt, while, instead of abolishing slavery
at the capital, we have put a veto power into the hands of a man
who had announced that he was the " inflexible opponent of any at-
tempt to abolish slavery " there, without the consent of those who were,
(in Jefferson's language,) "nursed, educated and daily exercised in
tyranny." But, though I can begin to describe our guilty connection
with slavery, I can never finish the task ; and 1 must forbear.
It has been one great object of this publication 1o show that
SLAVERY HAS MUCH TO DO WITH US.
If the startling facts, of which I have here collected a scanty
specimen, do not arouse the yeomanry of the north to a sense of the
fact that our liberty has been doomed to become a sacrifice upon
the smoking altar of slavery, then shall I expect to see the bloody
rite speedily performed ; while that energy, which should have been
employed in defending her against the priests of the Southern Mo-
loch, will be spent in maniac raVings or fiend-like carnage.
I have given a great variety of "pictures of slavery by slavehold-
ers."" These, with only two or three exceptions, I cut with my own
hands from the southern papers in which they first appeared. As
my opportunity for examining such publications has 'been very lim-
ited, it will at once be understood, that the reader here sees only a
small part of those portraits which slaveholders have hung up in the
vestibule of slavery?s prison-house. Of the mad havoc which riots
unchecked in her dark and secret caverns, we can have no concep-
tion, which shall bear any near relationship to the reality, until the
iron has entered our own souls.
The reader will be glad to perceive that several of our ablest wri-
ters have enriched this work with their contributions.
The astronomical department of this number, has been under the j
entire control of the experienced astronomer, who has acquired such
well-earned celebrity as editor of "Parley's Almanac." There is
therefore no fear of inaccuracies. N. SOUTHARD.
A2
9, 1837. J. Q. Adams presented several petitions for the abolition of
slavery in the District of Columbia. There were 75 votes AGAINST
their RECEPTION.
10, 1837. Committee of Ohio Senate reported against a trial by jury
for persons claimed as slaveg.
12, 1837. Legislature of N. H. refused to incorporate the Freewill
Baptist Home Miss. Soc, because some Freewill Baptists in the State
believed the Declaration of Independence,
28, 1832. Legislature of Md. instructed their senators to ask of Con-
gress- an APPROPRIATION for the removal of FREE persons of
color from the U. S., and to move an Alteration of the Con-
stitution, if necessary, for that object.
31, 1837. Pennsylvania State A. S. Society formed at Harrisburg.
MOON'S PHASES.
First Quarter,
Full Moon,
Day Hour Min,
3 1 54m.
10 & 28 a.
Last Quarter,
New Moon,
Day Hour Min.
18 7 40 a.
25 8 54 a.
D. W.
£>
D So.
h. m.
J) sets.
H, wa.
h. m.
h. m.
10 49«
3 17a
morn.
4 4
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5 1
1 15
8 12
2 27
7 32
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4 49
9 38
5 54
10 29=
6 53
11 12
O rises
11 49
5 21«
mom-
6 25
24
7 29'
53
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9 S2
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1=0 32
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morn.
3 32
37
4 24
1 45
5 32
2 56
6 50
4 8-
8 18
5 18
9 26
6 22
10 24
3) sets
11 13
5 40a
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7 3
42
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1 23
9 39
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13'Saturd.
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15 Mond.
1-6 Tuesd.
17'jWedn
18jThurs.
19 Friday
2o!Saturd,
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22 Mond.
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2* Thurs.
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80 Tuesd.
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SI
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TEARING UP FREE PAPERS.
In the Southern States, every colored person is presumed to he a slave, till proved
to be free; and they are often robbed of the proof.
Po ■ i
jf the Sun, Moon an
.Tides, Weather, &r.
{^} nearest the Earth Clear
7*s south 8 45 a. and
£ greatest elong. E. cold.
21 stationary.
Rather low tkles.
Aldebaran S. 9 17 a. Fine
% in Q.CapeUtiS.9 43 a
Rigel S.9 47 a. and frosty.
9 in £| Now. look
S stationary. $ & lg.
Belelgeux S. 10 14 a. for
Rather high tides, snote.
21 S. S 42 m.
j) apogee. * rf <t -
2f c> D Rather unsettled,
with
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
is
14
15
16 Middling tides.
17 7*s S. 7 40 a. rain
18 Aldeb. S. 8 24 a. and
19 $ in Inferior <$ @ occa
20 Rather low tides. sional
21 h 6 J> snow
22 Capella S. 8 45 a.
23 Warm, with rain,
24 is <$ D er
25 Ricrel S. 8 S4 a.
26 ^ Perigee. $ g 3) snow.
27 h ^ ^>. Pretty high tides.
23 9 6 3) • 9 greatest "brill-
29iBetelgeux S. 8 58 a. [iancy
30 £ stationary. Jtfore
31 1 9 sets 8 23 a. swoio.
Readers! another rolling year has
brought us together. Ii has also brought
its 365 days of anguish to the slave, dc
its 365 clays of guilt and infamy to the
nation. But it has gone ; — gone with
its 365 days which were kindly given
as to labor for the deliverance of the
slave, and the salvation of his oppress-
ors. "We cannot recall the precious mo-
ments we have wasted, nor can we
ever atone fo-r our negligence : but we
can show the sincerity of our repent-
ance by redoubled zeal and industry
the present year.
In prosecuting our work, let us al-
ways feel that it is a ' light thing to be
judged of man's judgment.' Our whole
couduct is naked and open before the
eyes of Him who will soon judge us
without RESPECT OF PERSONS.
Would it not be well now to com-
mence giving one cent a day to pro-
mote the cause of universal liberty?
Will you set your sympathy for the
slave at a lower mark than this ?
God has made out ' free papers ' for
every human "being. "Our fathers, in
signing the Declaration of Independ-
ence, republished and endorsed them.
Yet some American citizens are SOLD
if they cannot produce additional free
papers, and when they do, they are
often robbed of those.
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FEBRUARY begins on THURSDAY.
[183S.
6, 1837. J. Q. Adams presented to congress petitions against slavery,
signed by 3641 persons.
12, 1789. Dr. Benjamin Franklin's name was signed to a petition to
the first congress which existed under that Constitution which he
helped to form, praying them to exert the full extent of power vested
in them by the Constitution, in discouraging the traffic in the human
species. He was at that time president of the Pennsylvania Aboli-
tion Society. " This," says Stuber, " was his last public act."
Franklin died April 17, 1790.
15, 1837. An act passed in New Jersey securing a trial by jury to per-
sons in that State, in questions of personal freedom. A similar act,
introduced by James C. Alvord, passed the legislature of Massa-
chusetts a few weeks after.
26, 1834. Legislature of Maryland, by a special act, offer a reward of
$30 for seizing a runaway, and reducing him to slavery.
27, 1837. Riot at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mr. S. L. Gould, of Boston,
was somewhat abused for speaking in behalf of liberty
MOON'S PHASES. Day Hour Min.
, Day Hour Min.
J) First Quarter, 1 0 32 a.
d Last Quarter, 17 0
41 a.
O Full Moon, 9 8 53 m.
©New Moon, 24 7
10 m
S
D. W.
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J) sets. |H. wa
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h. m
m. s.\ h. m.
h. m.\h. m
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1
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7 5 5j 9 50,0 56 13 57
5 47a
Bm
4 11a
8
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7 33
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7 2 5 9 571 314 17
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5
Mond.
7 0 510 01 6 14 21
9 20
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6
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5 28
10 11
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Wedo.
6 58 610 41 1014 28
11 S
6 16
10 53
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8
Thurs.
6 57 610 71 1344 31
11 50
6 50
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SI
9
Friday
6 55 610 10 I 16'l4 33
morn.
O rises
11 57
SI
10
Saturd.
6 54 6'l0 121 18'l4 34
32
6 16a
morn.
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6 47 6
10 26
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3 52
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6 46 6
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4 36
morn.
2 56
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17
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6 45 6
10 31
1 37
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5 24
36
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6 43 6
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6 42 6
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6 39 6
10 42
1 48
13 55
9 18
4 53
9 10
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Thurs.
6 38 6
10 44
1 50
13 47
10 20
5 44
10 4
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6 37 6
10 46
1 52
13 39
11 20
6 21
10 54
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24
Saturd
6 36 6
10 49
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% sets.
11 39
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25
SUN.
6 34 6
10 52
1 58
13 21
1 S
7 12
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26
Mond.
6 S3 6
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27
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Wedn. '6 29 G
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12 49 3 41
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1S3S.] FEBRUARY— SECOND MONTH. [28 days.
YOUNG HOUSE-RACERS TORTURING A FREE CITIZEN FOR AMUSEMENT !
The colored man was seized, fastened to the horse's tail, and driven several
miles. His free papers were at home, and be could not instantly produce them.
He was found dead by the road side the next morning.
[See Torrey's Portraiture (Philadelphia, 1817), p. 34/| "On the side of their
oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter." (Eccl. 4 : 1.)
Positions of the Sun, Moon and
Stars Tides, Weather, &c
Canopus S. 9 19 a. Warm,
Low tides. with
Sirius 3. 9 29 a. rain.
21 S. 2 6 m. Changeable,
Middling tides, with Utile
Castor S. 10 3 a. fine
weather for some time.
Procyon S. 10 2 a.
9 stationary. Unsettled,
Middling tides. cold,
J) apogee. 21 6 3> • with
$ greatest elongation W.
9 sets 7 48 a. snoxo
Pollux S. 9 43 a. or
y in £3. rain.
Sirius S. 8 S7 a.
hQ®- \6 J). Be-
Rather low tides. comes
Castor S. 9 1 2 a. more
9 sets 7 14 a. mild, but
21 S. 0 52 m. continues
g <$ J). unsettled.
Now ex-
J> peri. 6* <$©. 6* cS <C.
High fides. pect a few
Procyon S. 8 52 a. days
9 6® of fine
g £ y . pleasant weather.
ABOLITION,— A RELIGIOUS EN-
TERPRISE.
BY A KENTTJCKIAN.
The proper ground to place abolition
upon is a religious ground. We can-
not be too careful to prevent its assum-
ing a political type, or degenerating
into a secular character. We cannot
do or say too much to impress our fellow
Christians (who, after all, are the hope
of the slave) that abolition is not a hu-
man enterprise, with human ends
and human instrumentalities, — a mere
crusade for human rights; but that
it is a spiritual conflict, with spirit-
ual weapons and for spiritual ends, —
a holy warfare for the cause of Jesus
Christ.
We should mainly urge this consid-
eration,— that slavery is a sin^against
God. A conviction of this we should
strive to produce in every heart. For
myself, I can freely say that I have no
confidence in any other abolitionism
than that which is based upon this prin-
ciple. I would not have the list of ab--
olitionists swelled by a single name
however influential, which did not
pledge a heart responsive to this truth:
Let us seek to make thorough abolition-
MARCH bes-ins on THURSDAY.
2, 1807. Act of Congress prohibiting the foreign slave trade was passed,
to take effect Jan. 1, 1808.
4, 1837. Martin Van Buren became president of the United States.
When taking the oath of office, he pledged himself to veto a consti-
tutional act, if it was' against the wishes ofthe slave-holding states.'
6, 1837. A Petition of fathers !md mothers of New York, praying
for a trial by jury when the LIBERTY of themselves and children
is at stake, was REJECTED by the N.Y. House of Assembly. Also
• a Petition praying that the Constitution of the State might be so amend-
ed that a man's complexion should not disqualify him from voting.
12, 1832. Law passed in the Legislature of Maryland prohibiting
emancipation without expulsion from the State, unless the slaves
procure certificates of extraordinary good conduct or character.
MOON'S PHASES.
]) First Quarter,
O Full Moon,
Day Hour Min.
3 1 38 m.
11 3 45 m.
Day Hour Min.
d Last Quarter, 19 . 1 39 m.
® New Moon, 25 4 54 a.
D. W.
r. s.
L. D.
h. m.
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h. m.
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h. m.
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h. m0
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Thurs.
Friday
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Tuesil.
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Thurs.
Friday
0 Saturd.
SUN.
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Tuesd.
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Thurs.
Friday
Saturd.
SUjV.
Mond.
Tuesd.
Wedn.
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23jFriday
24; Saturd.
tt\SUN.
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27 Tuesd.
Wedn
Thurs.
Friday
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14 morn.
38
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5 10
6 11
7 10
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9 9
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30a 1 33
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3 0a
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4 56
2 37
6 22
3 83
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4 59
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10 81
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morn.
7 17a
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8 20
27
9 24
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10 31
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morn.
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3 82
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1838.]
MARCH— THIRD MONTH. [31 days
Instead of being allowed to comfort and assist one another, the slaves are often
compelled to bold one of their number, while another wretched being is forced to
ply the lash.
Positions of the Sun, Moon and
Stars Tides, Weather, &c.
21 S. 0 17 m. Fine for
Castor S. 8 31 a. March
9 ^ $ . but unless
21 2 ©• Low southerly
9 in inferior £ @. tides.
Pollux S. 8 7 a. winds
9 ^ $ . prevail, the
\ stationary, weather
Regulus S. 10 40 a. will
21 6 D - be generally cold.
Sudden storms of
£ ^ 9 . snow, varied
£ £ t$ . Very high tides.
j) perigee. with
21 S. 11 15 a. rain.
>2 £ J) . "High winds.
\ S. 4 1 in.
Becomes clear again,
Cor Hydrse S. 9 23 a
(v) enters0^. Spring begins
Low tides. But cool.
Regulus S. 9 52 a.
?rj}>.N <?..?sta'y
Becomes mild,
$ 6 3> • (£> eclipsed, inv
Middling iw7A
tides. symptoms
J> apogee. o/
$ in superior £ ©.
2/ S. 10 15 a. sfwwei
Regulus S. 9 20 a.
ists ; — not political abolitionists, nor
commercial abolitionists, but pious ab-
olitionists,— men who, while they give
their sympathies to the slaves, will also
give their hearts to God. Let the anti-
slavery motto be, not ' I am a man, and
therefore an abolitionist,' but rather this,
' I love God, and therefore I am an ab-
olitionist.'
The peculiar enormity of slavery con-
sists in its being a sin against God.
This towering feature overshadows all
the violations of human rights and all
the blighting of human hopes, of which
slavery is incessantly guilty. This, its
sin against God, consists not merely in
its trampling upon the rights of man,
but still more in the disregard which it
thereby shows for the express will of
God. Slavery violates the explicit pre-
cepts of the Bible, and the attempt to
sanction it from the Bible is most awful
sacrilege. Slavery stabs to the heart
the law of love, it outrages the spirit of
the gospel, it opposes the temper of
Christ, it makes the atonement a mock-
ery, the cross a mimic tragedy, the
judgment a farce, hell a trifle, heaven
a shadow, eternity a void, — and, in one
word, writes LIE upon all the realities
of the universe. This is the sin of
slavery! If it does not go one step
further, and make God a nullity, it is
onlv because, like its father the devil,
12 APRIL begins on SUNDAY.
[1838. j
The bells are securely fastened upon some slaves, who are
thought
to be disposed to run away. The slave in the picture, named Paul,
was a native of Africa. He was stolen away from his widowed mother,
his wife, and four children. His master was often drunk, and ex
remely
cruel to all his slaves, but especially so to Paul, whose life was
made
insupportable. Notwithstanding his bells, he ran away, and concealed
himself three or four weeks, living on land tortoises, frogs, and other
reptiles. His back was hard, and all seamed and ridged with scars
made by the whip and hickory stick, so that scarcely any of the
original
color remained. At length he hung himself. When found,
le was
hanging by a cord made of hickory bark. The air was filled with birds
of prey, but when they tried to tear the flesh, the bells scared them away.
He preferred all this to slavery. There is not one slave at the sou
th who
has any security against similar cruelty.
MOON'S PHASES. -Day Hour Min.
Day Hour Min.
D First Quarter, 1 4 44 a.
(T Last Quarter, 17 10
40 m,
O Full Moon, 9 9 21 m.
$ New Moon, 24 2
18 ra.
S
D. W.
©
L. D.
D.IN.
©si.
J> So.
3) sets.
H. wa.
^'s
P
r. s.
k. m.
h. m.
m. s.
h. m.
h. m.
h. m.
place.
IISUjV.
2Mond.
5 43 7
12 34{3 40
3 57
6 13a
1 35m
4 40a
£5
5 42 7
12 36.3 42
3 39
7 6
2 25
6 3
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3 Tuesd.
5 41 7
12 38 3 44
3 22
J7 55
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7 23
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4
Wedn.
5 39 7 12 41J3 47
3 4
8 41
3 35
8 33
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5
Thurs.
5 S3 7,12 44,3 50
2 46
9 23
4 0
9 27
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6
Friday
5 36 7,12 47 3 53
2 28
10 4
4 22
10 7
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7
Saturd.
5 35 7J12 503 56
2 11
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4 41
10 40
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8
SUJY.
5 34 7 12 523 53
1 54
11 24
5 2
11 10
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9
Mond.
5 32 7 12 554 1
1 37
morn.
O rises
11 37
:Ct
10
Tuesd.
5 31 7 12 584 4
1 20
4
7 24
morn.
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5 29 713 14 7
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Thurs.
5 28 7 13 3 4 9
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9 41
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5 27 7!l3 6!4 12
0 31
2 21
10 50
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5 25 713 9J4 15
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1 52
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4 11
morn.
2 38
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Mond.
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5 10
56
3 33
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5 21 7(13 184 24
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19
Thurs.
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20
Friday
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SUjY.
5 15 7:1 3 304 36
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4 19
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23 Mond.
5 13 7.13 33'4 39
1 46
11 26
4 42
10 59
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24 Tuesd.
5 12 7,13 354 41
1 58
16a
©sets.
11 45
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25 Wedn.
5 11 7;1S 384 44
2 9
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26|Thurs.
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2 19
2 12
10 20
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27| Friday
5 8 7 13 44.4 50
2 39
3 10
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1 50
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28 Saturd
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1838.]
APRIL— FOURTH MONTH. [30 days.
The slave Paul had suffered so much in slavery, that he chose to encounter ilic
hardships and perils of a runaway. He exposed himself, in gloomy forests, to cok
and starvation, and finally hung himself, that he might not again fall into tht
hands of his tormentor. [See Ball's Narrative, 2d Edit. p. 325.]
Positions of the Sun, Moon an
Stars. . . .Tides, Weather, &c.
Alphard S. 8 37 a.
Low tides. Rainy,
Regulus S. 9 9 a. with
Alkes S. 9 58 a. perhaps
$ Q>. a snow squall
3> apogee. 21 6 D • or
Mirach on mer. 9 47 a.
Dubhe on mer. 9 45 a.
J) eclipsed, visible, two.
9 at greatest brilliancy.
g ^ £ . Pretty high tides
9 rises 3 32 m. Some snow
h6D. 9 6^> from
2£ S. 9 16 a. eastward,
\ S. 2 1 1 m. Rather un-
Mirach on mer. 9 14 a.
Dubhe on mer. 9 11 a.
Low tides. settled.
Alkes S. 9 2 a. Jin occa
¥ 6 D- 9 6 3>- **°»a
Denebola S. 9 54 a.shower
j) perigee. Now expect
$ & J) . several days of
High tides, fine pleasant
£ greatest elon.E. $ £ J)
Zavijava S. 9 26 a. April
Algorab S. 10 6 a.
21 sets 3 1m. weather.
\l S. 1 17 a. Rather
9 <Q. . cool.
it would rather war against His attri-
butes, than deny His being.
How then should Christians regard
this daring libeller of the God they
love ? There can be but one answer
to this question, — they must abhor it.
Yes; let this truth be written upon the
four walls of every church in these
United States, — Christians must
abhor Slavery, op. renounce
God.
Reader, you may now excuse your-
self from rxiing, because the slaves are
black. Will that excuse avail you
when your Judge shall own them as
His brethren ? — when he shall say,
' Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of
the least of these, ye did it not to me.'
Will it not be insulting your Creator to
his face to urge such a plea ? If so, how
dare you use it now?
Francis Durret, in the Huntsville
(Ala.) Democrat of March 8, 1837,
advertises a mulatto slave who had
escaped from him, who " had on when
he left, a pair of hand-cuffs, a pair
of drawing chains," &c.
What would you do to redeem your-
lf from slavery ? * Then shalt love thy
neighbor A S thyself J
14
MAY begins on TUESDAY.
[1838.
26, 183^. The U. S. House of Representatives adopted the following:
" Resolved, That all Petitions, Memorials, Resolutions and propo-
sitions relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of
Slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid on the
table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon."
Yeas, 117. Nays, 68. It was a second time adopted, Jan. 18, 1837.
If we would not forever lose the right of petition, we must use it.
This year, we ought, every one of us, to petition Congress to abolish
slavery in Dis. Col. and the Territories, — so to " regulate commerce
among the several states," as to abolish the internal slave trade, — and
to reject any proposition for ihe admission of Texas ; and we should
also petition our state governments to join their prayers with ours.
MOON'S PHASES. Day Hour Min.
J) First Quarter, 1 9 24 m
O Full Moon, 9 0 17 a.
d Last Quarter, 16 5 2 a.
@ New Moon,
D First Quarter,
Day Hour Min.
23 11 42 m.
31 2 54 m.
D. W.
© |L.D.
s,\h. m.
D.m,
h. m.
fa.
J) So.
h. m.
D sets.
h. m.
H. wa.
h. m.
place.
1 (Tuesd.
2Wedn.
8 Thurs.
4 Friday
5. Saturd.
6 SUM.
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Mond.
Tuesd.
Wedn.
Thurs.
Friday
Saturd.
SUM.
Mond.
Tuesd.
Wedn.
17 Thurs.
Friday
Saturd.
SUM.
Mond.
Tuesd.
Wedn.
Thurs.
Friday
Saturd
SUM.
Mond.
Tuesd.
Wedn.|4
Thurs. 4
713
713
7;i3
8 14
844
814
844
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54 814
53 814
52 8'l4
51 8 14
50 8 14
43 814
47 8'l4
46 8 14
45 8 14
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42 814
42 814
41 8-14
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39
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814
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585
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50
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7 26
8 8
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morn.
20
8 SO
9 13
10 8
11 1
11 57
54a
54
52
46
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21
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6 43
1 42m
2 11
2 33
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morn.
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10 11
11 1
11 41
morn.
10
35
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5 23a
6 37
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8 47
9 30
10 6
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morn.
23
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• The purchaser of the husband has sent to have him dragged away. As he does
not wish for the ' balance' of the family, Ihey have been taken by different pur-
chasers. See page 33.
Positions of the Sun, Moon and
Stars Tides, Weather, &c.
A. A. S. SOCIETY.
At their annual meeting, May 9, '37,
the following officers were chosen.
Arthur Tappan, President ; William
Jay, E. Wright, Jr. Cor. Sees.- A. A.
Phelps, Bee. See.; John Rankin, Treas.
Arthur Tappan, Lewis Tappan, John
Rankin, S. S. Jocelyn, S. E. Cornish,
La Roy Sunderland, Charles Follen,
11 S. 8 9 a. Unsettled,
Rather low tides. with
% 6 D- grj©. occa-
J) apogee, sional showers.
\ S. 0 53 m. Changeable,
21 station'v. $ station'y.
Denebola S. 8 48 a. with
Algorab S. 9 24 a. now and Theodore S. Wright, Duncan Dunbar,
Joshua Leavitt, E. Wright, Jr., A. A.
Phelps, Executive Committee.
If we had the whole nation abolition-
ized to choose from, we could not com-
mit the interests of our cause to better
hands. The true friends of the op-
pressed will not hesitate to sustain
them in all their undertakings. The
society has more than 1000 auxiliaries.
Alioth on meridian 9 41 a.
"fy £ J) . Rather high tides
21 S. 7 31 a. then a pleasant
\l S. 0 12 m. day or two.
<? greatest elon.W. £ £3.
Algorab S. 8 57 a. Signs
Cor Caroli S. 9 19 a. of
J2 £ ©. Low tides, rain.
% in inferior <$ ©. # ^ J>
Spica S. 9 36 a. Now expect
19| j) perigee, a succession of
20 <j> 6 3)- warm, pleasant
21 ArcturusS. 10 15 a. day
22 $ 6 D • ^gelation rapid.
2$ $ A J) . Becomes cool.
24, High tides. Showers.
25 S 6 $ • Continues cool,
26'Cor Caroli S. 8 35 a. with
27 j Spica S. 9 0 a. considerable
28 Arcturus S. 9 47 a. disposi
29, £ stationary. Hon to rain.
SO, Rather low tides. Change-
Sll J) apogee. 21 6 D- a^e'
Though we may forget that a cry
from the blood and groans and tears of
our brothers, whose chains have been
fastened by norihern hands, is going
up to heaven from the prisons, the
'•'sugar houses," the cane-fields, the
rice-swTamps, the secret huts and the
secluded plantations of the south, yet
Jehovah can never forget the word
which he spake of old to the oppressors
of the poor ; — " If they cry at all unto
me, I WTLL SURELY HEAR THEIR CRT,
AND MY WRATH SHALL WAX HOT AGAINST
Y0~ JT™ T WT™> THLL YOU" WTTH THE
16 JUNE begins on FRIDAY. [1838. j
SEPARATING PARENTS FROM CHILDREN.
Children, see those two little boys ! see that child under the man's
arm ! See that poor woman with chains on her wrists, stretching out her
hand toward the little babe ! She is their MOTHER. The boys are
crying. They hsywe seen their dear mother for the last time. See how
she tries to reach them. She would go after them, but her hands and
feet are chained, and that wicked man holds her back. How he looks !
Do they take the children away because she was unkind to them, or
could not take care of them ? No ; but the man who is driving the boys
with a hickory stick is a slaveholder. So he came and paid money to
the man who is quietly smoking a cigar, and bought them. The hearts
of the mother and children are broken, but the slaveholders pity them
not. Do you ask if this is true ? Yes ; children are torn from their
parents, and parents from their children, every day, at the south.
MOON'S PHASES. Day Hour Min.
Day Hour Min.
O Full Moon, 8 0 8m.
# New Moon, 21 9 48 a.
d Last Quarter, 14 9 47 a. J> First Quarter, 29 8 25 a.
S
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L. D.
D.IN.
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4 33 8114 5416 0
2 34
7 22a
1 15m
6 32a
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4 33 8.14 55 6 1
2 25
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6 23
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4 27 815 66 12
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7 10
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4 27 Silo 66 12
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4 27 8.15 66 121 1 6J10 33
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Thurs.
4 27 815 6!Ddecj 1 1941 36
J) sets.
11 11
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22
Friday
4 27 845 60 0 1 32
S4a
8 47
11 56
£5
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4 27 8|l5 60 0 1 45
1 29
9 29
35a
£5
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4 27 815 6 0 0, 1 58
2 25
10 8
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4 27 815 60 0 2 11
3 10
10 32
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5 12 1
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morn.
5 4
■p.
Ev'n her babes, so dear, so young,
And so treasured in her heart,
Th:it the cords which round them clun°
Seemed its life, its dearest part;
The«e, ev'n these, were tom n\av !
These, that, when all else were gonej
Cheered the heart with one bright ray,
That .-till bade its pulse beat on!
IPositi
Stfn
of the Hun, Moon and
..Tides, Weatber, &c
1 Spica S. 8 40 a.
9. A returns S. 9. 26 a.
JfT □'©. 'Fair and
Mi iac"S. 9 48 a. jine,
21 sets, l 21 m. with now
\ £ J) . and then a
7|>2 S. 10 27 a. shower.
Spiea S. 8 11 a.
Middling tides. Windy,
Arcturus S. 8 54 a.
■ In Kentucky there lived* a wicked
woman, a slaveholder, and a member
of the Presbyterian church. Oi
slaves was the mother of two children,
7 and 9 years old. The woman sold
the mother to another slaveholder, and
did not let her know it. When she was
seized
II Alphacca S. 10 9 a.
|.2 v; greatest elong.W.
13 Mirac S. 9 11 a. Change-
14 j) perigee, %i £ J) . able
1 5 b S. 9 52 a.
16' A returns S.
17i ig. stationary, ran.
18! 9 <$ J). 21 sets 11 40a.
1 $' 6 6 D- Continues
20| $ 6 D • ^settled, with
21 |(v) enttersfS- Sum'r begins,
22 Middling tidfeg. rain orca-
&S' Aiphacca S. 9 20 a. sion-
24 $ Q. 21 sets 11 17 a. aliy
} she shrieked and cried, and the
children cried when they saw their
mother torn from them, but the slave-
holder did not regard their crie ;. lie
chained their mother, and drove her
away, where she never saw her chil-
dren again.
Can slaves be happy, when they are
all the time exposed to such eru< 1 sep-
arations! There are 600,000 cl
with comidyu the U. S. every moment liable to be
28 a. erableilovti from their mothers. Children, do
ssa >i 5. 9 7 a. and with hid
26 Antares S. 9 58 a. a fewL
27 21 6 D - fine daVs to l^€
28 j) apogee, end of the
29 Aiphacca S. 8 55 a. monM.jbody believes this
I SO'-) farthest frotn the earth, slaves in the world
you think slavery ia right ? V
thieves and robbers do ? Who is ?. rob-
ber, if the man who takes children
from their mothers and sells them is
not a robber ?
Children1, pray for the wicked slave-
holder, and for the heartbroken slave,
Can you do anything to free the poor
slave children, so they may not be lorn
rom their mothers and sold ? Yes ; you
an fry to convince all your neighbors
nid playmates that it is wicked to rob
he innocent of liberty. When every
there will be no
23, 1S36. W. L. Garrison elected honorary
If we do not arouse ourselves soon, this " last refuge of liberty" will
be left the only earthly home of slavery.
Flow e;m religious freedom exist, where some preachers are held as
property, while other preachers hold men as property? '
<•' $'50 REWARD, for ARTHUR. He may be known by being in the!
habit of preaching among slaves." — J\r. O. Bee, Sept. 3, 1836. He'
may be known by his " always abounding in the work of the Lord."
" Brought to Jail, PRIMUS, who says he belongs to the REV.*
Mr. Harrison, of Columbia county, and ran away from bis plantation, in
Rurke county." — Savannah paper, Aug. 22; 1836. Mr. H. .proclaims!
the gospel Christ preached to the poor in one county, and enslaves the!
poor, for whom Christ died, in another.
BOON'S PHASES. Day Hour Mill. | Day Hour iUin. j
O Full Moon, 7 9 30 m. @ New Moon, 21 9 32 m.
d Lust Quarter, 14 2 30 m. J) First Quarter, 29 1 4a.
© sl.p So. DsetsJH. wa.
m. sJ h. m. h. m.\k. m.
0
l. d. \D.de.
k. m.\h..m.
place.
i<SUM
2' Monti.
STuesd.
4iWedn.
5;Thurs.
6'Fridav
7jSaturd.
8' SUN.
9, Month
lOTiiesd.
lljWedn.
12jThure:
13 Friday
14'Satunl.
IbSUY.
16! Monti.
ftTtiesd.
18|Wedii.
19jThurs.
20 Friday
21 Saturd.
2%SUJY.
23-Mond.
24 Tuesd.
25 Wedn.
26Thnrs.
27 Friday
28 Saturd
<29\SUN.
80;Mond.
SlTwestf.
28 8
28 8
29 8
29 8
SO 8
50 8|
51 8
SI 8,
32 8
32 8
S3 8
33 8
34 8
35 8
35 8
36
37
33
3S
39 8''
40 8
41 8:
42 8,
43 8
44 8!
45 8
46 8
47 8
48 8'
49 8
50 8!
40
3|0
2;o
10
00
U 590
14 580
14 57,0
14 56|0 10
14 55'0 11
14 54J0
14 53|0
14 52;0
14 5l|0
14 50,0
8;14 48;0 19
844 46,0 20
8.14 45!0 22
844 44*0 23
14 42|0 24
14 40 0 26
14 380 28
14 360 30
14 34 0 32
14 32
0 34
14 30
0 36
14 28
0 38
14 26
0 40
14 24
0 42
14 22
0 44
14 20
0 46
7* 10a
lOw
7 56'
28
S 47
51
9 39
I 23
10 36
2 1
11 38
2 50 !
morn.-
O !'ises
39
8 58a
1 39
9 31
2 34.
10 3
26
15
3
51
40
31
8 27
9 23
10 21
11 17
9a
59
1 44
26
5
2
3
3 43
4 23
5 3
5 46
6 33
10 27
10 50
11 12
II 36
morn.
2
37
1 16
2 5
3 2
© sets.
8 20a
8 53
9 13
9 31
9 48
10 7
10 26
10 48
11 17
6_ 4 7 24 111 51
6 10a
s±
7 49
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8 38
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9 44
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10 33
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11 19
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morn.
n
0
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40,
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1 20
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2 6
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3 31
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4 22
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5 25
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6 46
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8 10
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9 16
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10 12
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£5
11 3S
23
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4 5
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833.] JULY— SEVENTH MONTH. [31 days.
Consider the desolation which would he brought upon your family, if the head
of it sh >ul(l be taken away. The -lues suffer, in such cases, far more than we,
fur they have few pleasures except those they derive from their companions in wo.
Positions of the Sun, Moon am
Stars T ides, Weather, &c.
Our
THOMAS COOPER
Was born inMd. and em-lavedfrom
his birth, He was scantily fed and
6Ras Alhague S. 10 25 a.
7; £ i'1 perihelioT/. July,
10; J) perigee. $ rises 2 13 hi.
1 1 ¥ 6 J) • weH n°t t° place
I2i £ in superior ^ ©. loo
13 9 rises 1 50 rri: much con-
14:g £ 9 . jidence in them,
15 !;> sets 0 48 m. but watch
16 Ras Algethi S. 9 24a. the
1-71 £ greatest Hel. Int. N.
l8'Q 6 !>• c? 6 D- weather
l9Ras Alhague S. 9 S2 a.
20 Rastaben "S. 9 54 a. nar-
21 Vega S. 10 23 a. rowly as
2'2' £ 6 J>- Middling tides.
23 Altair S. 11 32 a. we get
24! 9 rises 1 57 m. our hay
Z5\2l 6 3> • $ r,ses 1 55 m-
26 J) apogee, down, and im-
27 9 ^ $ .Vist^y. prove the
28 21 sets 9 9 a. time well in
29 >> sets 11 48 a. getting it
liUnuk S. 8 54 a.
2Uj Q- prognostics makefikhed, worked hard, and lodged in a
^ ]2 6 D- ottf r<tfA«r ffl wretched hut, which did not shelter
4 lias Algethi S. 10 13 a. him from the cold of winter and the
5 : An tares S. 9 21 a. riatny storms of summer. But he loved
God. About the year 1800, he availed
himself of his " inalienable right" to
8 Uastaben S. 10 42 a. l(|run awa.V from his oppressor, leaving
9 V gets io 20 a. may be behind the name by which his master
' had known him. and taking another.
He found work in Philadelphia, where
he was faithful to his employers, and
beloved by them. He married a wife
in Philadelphia, and soon saw around
him a group of beloved children. But
in an evil hour a traitor informed his
old tyrant of the place of his abode.
He had been guilty of using his own
legs for his own benefit, and this, in
the American Republic, is an unpar-
donable crime. He was seized and
hand-cuffed, and though his employers
offered more than he was worth, as a
slave, yet the man -holder refused to
let his victim go. In the picture above,
you see the parting scene.
While the handcuffs were fastened,
Thomas, expecting never to see his
wife again, urged her to bring up the
children in habits of industry, till she
could put them with good men who
30 I2 ^ D • Low 'tides. intojwould teach them to work and take
31 KfuAabet) S. 9 8 a. the barn. 'core of themselves.
1, 1834. Emancipation of 800,000 slaves in the British colonies.
1, 1836. Interesting and joyful celebrations of the above event in the
British W. I. In Falmouth, Jamaica, there was an exhibition ot'col-
ored schools in the unfinished Bap. church. 1600 children present.
In 1822, the W. I. planters were an such " distress ". that they
prayed Parliament to adopt " prompt " measures " to preserve them
| from inevitable ruin." — They afterward prophesied thus: " The speedy
annihilation of slavery would be attended with the devastation ofW.-I.
colonies, with loss of lives and property to the white inhabitants, with
inevitable distress and misery to-the black population, and with a fatal
j shock to the commercial credit of this empiue-" Even Mr. Baring, of
[London, [a more credible prophet] predicted the ' decline of manufac-
tures, withering of commerce,' &c. — For results see opposite page.
MOON'S PHASES. Bay Hour Min.
,
Day Hou
Min.
O Full Aluon, 12 5 36 a.
\® Nev/ Moor
19 11
39 a.
d Last Quarter, 1 8 39 m
.!([ First Quarter, 28 4
9 m.
S
I>. w.
©
L. D.
D.de.
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D So.
J) sets
H. wa.
>'s
Q
r.
s.
h. m.
h. m.
m. s.
h. m.
h. m.
h. vti.
place.
1
Wedn. 4
51 8
14 18 0 48,6
0
8 18a
morn.
7 57
t
1 2
Thurs.
4
52 8
14' 16:0 50;5
56
9 19
. 34
9 12
t
1 3
Friday
4
53 8
14 140 52,5
52
10 21
1 32
10 9
>?
4 Saturd.
4 54 8J14 12 0 54'5
47
11 22
2 42
11 0
i£
hlSUM |4
55 814 9 0 57 5
42
morn.
O rises
11 40
/vw
6
Mond. |4
56 8 14 7 0 59 5
36
20
7 58
morn.
MV
7
Tuesd.4
57 814 5,1 15
29
1 15
3 23
25
X
8
Wedn. 4
59 S44 31 35
21
2 3
3 43
1 5
X
9
Thurs J 5
0 7!14 ill 55
13
2 57
9 11
1 43
T
10
Friday 5
1 7 13 584 85
5
3 47
9 33
2'21
00
. 11
Saturd. 5
2 7 13 56 1 104
56
4 37
10 2
3 5
°f
12
SUJV. 5
3 7|13 53!1*13 4 46
5 29
10 35
3 55
8
IS
Mond. 15
5 7 13 50!1 15!4
36
6 24
11 14
5 3
8
14
Tuesd.p
6 7 13 481 18-4
25
7 20
morn.
6 28
n
15
Wedn.5
7 7 13 45 1 214
14
8 17-
0
7- 56
n
16
Thurs. J 5
3 7 13 43 1 234
3
9 17
1 0
9 11
£3
1 17
Friday \ 5
10 7
13 411 263
51'
10 7
2 1
10 0
£5
1 18
Siiturd J5
11 7
13 39:1 38 3
38
10 57
3 7
10 44
SI
I 19
SUN. 5
12 7J1S 361 303
24
11 42
# sets.
11 20
&
9 20
Mond. 5
14 7
13 331 333
11
26a
7 21
11 52
1^
1 21
Tuesd.jo
15 7
IS 3l|l 352
56
1 8
7 40
20a
1^
I 22
Wedn. 5
16 7
13 28 1 38 2
42
1 47
7 59
45
1^
S 23
Th urs. 5
13 7
13 26:1 412
27
2 25
8 16
1 u
-TV
I 24
Friday 5
19 7
l: 24 1 43 2
11
3 5
8 35
I 41
-rx
J 2*5
Saturd. 5
20 7 13 21jl 461
56
S 46
8 55
l 11
nL
! 26
SUM
5
21 743 18 1 491
39
4 30
9 20
2 50
Hi
1 27
Mond.
5
23 7.13 151 51 1
22
5 18
9 48
3 S3
1T1
1 2^
Tuesd.
5
24 7 13 12 1 541
5
6 11
10 SO
4 43
if
| 29
Wedn.
5
25 7;13 91 57 1
48
7 8
11 21
6 9
f
1 30
Thurs. |5
27 7113' 6 2 0|
29
8 8
morn.
7 43
V?
| 31
Friday |5
aoa— a— n
28 7'13 3 2 S
10
9 9
tOEmmam
24
8 53
V?
1838.] AUGUST— EIGHTH MONTH. [31 days
wm
The slaves are sometimes chained together when they go lo worii in the
lsst their love of liberty should induce them to make violent efforts to escape.
*Z I Positions of the San, Moon and
p I Stars Tides, Weather, &c.
6 i High tides. Rather cool
7 h) perigee, J3 6 3> . /or
^ ($ (y). fA<? season.
in"?S. ft
9 £ in £>• ,ve may
10; Jv rises 1 36 ra. expect
\i sets 10 44 a. now and
11
RESULTS OF EMANCIPATION.
A gentleman from Vermont who
Ras Alhague S. S 41 a. has spent several years in the West
2 Rastaben S. 9 2 a. Clouds Indies, wrote a letter to Gerrit Smith,
8 Vega S. 9 37 a. gathering dated Sept. 20, 1836. He gives the
4iAltair S. 10 45 a. for. ra iny 'result of observation in 4 islands. J.
5! Q rises 2 9 m. weather. !H. Kimball knew the writer well, and
"^avs that in his tour in the West Indies,
n 1837, he saw enough abundantly to
confirm the statements of this letter in
every particular.
Of Trinidad, the writer says :
All the negroes appeared cheerful and harm-
less, ami not seldom did 1 hear the remark,
veri from p' inters, that emancipation was a
GREAT BLESSING.
It. was plain to be seen that emancipation
had been the very thing to take away, at one.
ind forever, ALL DANGER of violence on
the part of the colored people!
In Barbadoes, there were 050,000
slaves liberated in one day, anions:
only 20.000 whites. Of this place he
speaks thus :
Since the 1st of August, 1834, there has not
been the slightest popular disturbance or even
the rumor of one in any part of the Island.
Ar;d :!ils is not because the blacks are overato-
td. They are themselves a part of the Island
militia, and I declare it as my firm convic-
tion that as ei. peopi' , they are as orderly and
as little inclined to violence, as any people
on earth.
It has done my heart good, to hear people of
1.011°' Stomi ti™ highest standing here,, and those who
Wned great numbers of slaves, freely admit
that their opposition to emancipation was all
wrong — that it was One of the greatest bless-
ings that ever came upon the country, and
that nothing would inpuce them to return to
^_
1 -2 Vega S. 9 3 a. then a
13 Low tides. shower.
1 4 Altair S* 10 7 a.
15b □ (v). Considerable
' 6 <? o 3> • ra*w mmJ
17! 9 6 J>-' be expected
18 ? rises 2 31 m. for
MS 6 21- several days.
20! Rather high tides.
21 1 9 in Q. Becomes
22h) apogee. 21 6 D - ,
23 # greatest elong. E. cool,
rises 1 27 ra. with
~o 1? sets 10 S a. indications
26; Altair S. 9 22 a. of a
28 Deneb on mer. 10 8 a.
29 Low tides, of wind
SO, 9 rises 3 1 m. and
SllAltair 8. 9 4 a. rain
\22 SEPTEMBEE fogiftk on SATURDAY. [1838. |
5, 1835; A large meeting (at a church) in Clinton, Mi., "Resolved, |
'J'hat abolitionists are ' worthy of immediate death,' and that they f
would receive it in any part of that State. They also very highly |
recommended the Colonization Society."
7, 183a, Ednlund Bellinger, of S. C. , made a long speech to prove that
slavery is Ji enforced by necessity, sanctioned by religion, and justifi-
ed by law."
7, lS3o. Hancock (Me.) Bap. Association, adopted a report declaring
that, in their opinion, iJ of all the systems of iniquity that ever cursed
the world, the slave system is the most abominable ;" and that the
only proper remedy is immediate emancipation.
| 13, I83:>. General (Congregational) Convention of Vt. adopted a re- 8
port, declaring their conviction, that slavery will work out for those §
1 who tolerate it, " individual injustice, impurity and crime, and na- |
1
ional wretchedness, and final ruin."
1 MOON'S PHASES. Day Hour Mfn.
Day iJ.our Min.. |
O Full Mooiw, 4 1 31 a.
@ New Monn, 18 4 (i a. 1
([ List Quarter, 10 5 23 a.
d First Quarter, 2o 5 18 a. §
g
D. W. j ©
jr. s.
L. D.
r>.de.
©fa.p So. p. sets
|H. WH.
3>'s
Q
h. m.
h. m.
m. s.\ h. m. \ h. m.
\h. m.
place. 1
ijSaturd.
5 30 7
13 0j2 6
S 10 8«
1 97fll
9 56a
/VW 1
| 2SILY.
5 31 7
12 58 <2 9
27 11 5
2 56
10 43
<*w
SjMorid.
5 33 7
12 55 2 12
46
morn.
4 20
11 27
/V4V
AW
4;Tuesd.
5 35 7
12 5112 15
1 5
0
O rises
morn.
X
5 WednJs 36 7
12 48-2 18
1 25-1 - 52
7 20a
7
■ X
I 6lThurs. 5 37 7
12 46i2 20
1 45i 1 44
7 44
46
r
7|Friday 5 39 7!l2 43;2 23
2 5; 2 36
'8 10
1 26
°f
SjSatord.5 40 7Jl2 41 J2 25
2 25 3 29
8 41
2. 7
9\SUN. 5 41 7112 J3!2 28
2 -46
4 24
9 18*
2 53
8
lOiMond. 5 42 7J12 36;2 31
3 6
5 21
10 3
3 46
n
HjTuesd.jo 43 7112 33 2 34
3 .27
6 20
10 59
4 5S
n
12JWedn.l5 45 7 12 30,2 36
3 47
7 17
morn.
6 23
£5
13Thurs.J5 46 7|l2 28;2 S9
4 8
S 13
2
i si
£5'
1 14(FridayJS! 48 712 2512 41
4 291 9 2
1 6
8 56
£5
15JS£urd^5 49 712 22;2 44
161SUN. 5 50 7 12 19|2 47
4 50l 9 49
2 12.
9 46
a '
5 11 10 S3
3 18
10 26
a
17JMond. |5 52 7)12 16 2 50
5 32 11 15
4 22
11 0
w
18iTuesd.'5 53 7!12 14 2 53
5 5311 54
©sets.
11 31
w
19 WednJs 55 7:12 112 56
6 15| 33a
6 31a
11 57
tyj
20jThurs.
5 56 712 8 2 59
6 36| 1 13
6 50
lia
-TV
21IFriday
5 57 712 53 1
6 57i 1 54
7 10
53
-TV
22JSaturd.
5 59 7J12 3 3 4
7 17 2 37
7 37
1 22
n
28\SUJ\r.
6 0 612 03 6
7 38] 3 24
8 2
1 57
*i
24!Mond.
6 1 6 11 58 3 -9
7 59, 4 13
S 36
2 S3
n
l25Tuesd.|6 2 611 55 3 11
S 19 5 8
9 22
3 30
t
p ^jWedn.!6 '-4 6 11 52 3 14
8 39; 6 5 10 18
4 35
t
||v7iThurs.i6 6 6|il 49:3 IS
8 59 7 3
11 24
6 1
v?
I 23 Friday |6 7 6 11 46 3 21
9 19 S 1
morn.
7 34
VJ
I 29JSaturd.|6 9 6 11 43 3 24
9 39 8 58
40
8 43
AW
1 80
\SUM_
6 10 6
11 40
3 27
9
59
9 50
2 0
9 33
r~r. 1
1S3S.] SEPTEMBER— NINTH MONTH. [30 days.,1
Sometime-; a slave is tied up by the wrists, while the ancles are fastened to a
staple in the floor. In this position, they are punished with the whip or witti the
paddle. This is an instrument of torture bored full of holes, each hole raisin;- * '
blister.
| Positions of the Sun, Moon audi
Stars.... Tides, Weather, ice. !
COLONIZATION.
One powerful moral obstacle in the
l.Altair S. 9 0 a. Changeable jw av of the principles of* righteous
2|Deneb S. 9 50 a. for afcw'YihC'rty is the spirit of COLONIZA-
31 # <? ©. W 6 D • days •■TIOV. The doctrines put Sforth by
4Ji> perigee. Very then oe- leading colonizationists, and sanction-
5 £ sta'y. high tides cowwsN by ihe society, have operated to
6 Alderamin S. 10 14 a. weld up the half-broken limks of slave-
7 Q A ?. ' stormy, with -'T's chain, and to prevent masters
8 Foaialhaut S. 11 41 a. |irom becoming honest, and leaving off
9 $ greatest Hel. lat. S. fobbing the poor. Forprooflook at
10 9 rises 3 23 m. wind a«<*' ]; A fetw f [acts ?r°m lhe Fud1ic
ii't 'i • .Documents of the society.
1 1| LOW tides. rain. "All emancipation to howerer small an
lifl J- rises 1 18 in. Becomes extent, which permits the persons emancipated
1 Sj $ 6 D • fotmd Pleasani' l° remaiU m UliS C™f£sl*t*?oVkelort.
■' They will annex the CONDITION that the
emancipated shall leave the country." 2d do.
" Emancipation, with the LIBERTY to re-
main on this side of the AUantic, is but an act
of dreamy madnessJi-*~Thirt&?>ith An. Rep.
Now as it is impossible that any
k \y^ jt /r* (considerable portion of the slaves canj
^Oi Rnt&r hi<rh titles ' ~ lbe removed at once, it follows that thej
21 Sram in S 9 21 a hciet* RECOMMENDS to the slave-
ooli '5 S Tz> , -ui ■* holders to CONTINUE to HOLD!
H -, ^ 'l * 6 aQ . • 'SLAVES for the present. And if they j
23]© enters ^. Aut. begins.are convjnced that this is right NOW,1
M Q lii pernehon. of jmcthey will believe, and justly too, that;
25 Fomalhaut S. 10 40 a. Ut will be right FOREVER".
26 Low tides. autumn o. Observe the language of eminent!
27 9 stationary, weather, [colonization advocates and auxiliaries.
28$ in Q. with now and ) " When they rifem be transported to the soil
»Q M»i-W» S m«i4i /7?'tt from whence d^ey were derived., then let them.
iSMaikah ». 1U c.4 a. l«y»jbe emancipated, and not before."- Lou>dV\
SOAIpherat S. 1 1 34 a. rain. < Mo.™.) rrfesraph.
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OCTOBER begins on MONDAY.
[I83&
IS, 1S3G. The. Western Reserve (().) synod passed resolutions, calling
slavery " one reigning and mighty form of sin," and added, we
" earnestly entreat the General Assembly to do all in their power to
do it' away."
26, 1836. A yo-ung man born free in- Pennsylvania was hurried into
. southern slavery by the decision of a justice. (!!!) of the peace in O.
In the engravings on the next three pages, it will be seen that slavery
has something to do with the north-. When slaveholders thus trample
jon all law and justice in their dealings with us, shall we, to accpmmo-
jdate them, give up the liberty of speech and the pre-?s, and the right of
j jury trial (as the lion in the fable parted with his teeth and claws), and
lie down quietly for them to tread .our necks in the dust ? What could
we expect, when in the power of those who enslaVe their own children ?
BOON'S PHASE'S.
O FuH Moon,
H Last Quarter,
Dav Hour Man. 1 B;iy Hm:r
3' 10' 12 m. # New Moon, .18 9
TO 5 53m.l ([ First Quarter, 26 4
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55 in.
30 m.
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m. s-.j h. m.
>sets jH. wa.j
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)lace.
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Friday
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SUN.
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33 4 34 15
30 4 37 15
27 4 39 15
25 4 42 15
22 4 45 16
194 47 16
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144 53 16
18 10 45« 3 17
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56; morn
14' 29
32 I 23
50; 2 19
8j 3 18
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40l 5 17
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7 7
7 56
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53 6 54 ill 46
59 7 47
3 8 38
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11 10 19
1311 10
1S3S.] OCTOBER— TENTH MONTH. [31 days.
THE WAY THEY ;' CATCH MEN " IN PENNSYLVANIA.
These men having; felt the horrors of slaver/, fled to Cambria county, Pa., in
April, 1837. Being pursued, one of them said he would die before he would be
taken. They were shot and voumhd, and then were taken with great difficulty.
"" Pos
s of the Sun, Mod
*tars. . . .Tides, Weather
rij).
Alderarain S. 8 40 a.
3) perigee. season.
'l,lt j "Emancipation, without removal from the
_ * country, is out of the question." — Second IiC-
Finefor thc\Port- NeteYork State Col. Soc.
"The recent murderous movements of the
people of color, in some of the qo'utl
evinces th i dreadful cons
ALL
■] n ('') cl o-roatest el W a,:'' ti*e.absolute necessity of col mizing ALI
XT w* \T*A - ■ ' '{free blacks immediately, and of manumitting
\ ery niffn tides. and colonizing slaves as fast as circi
Fomalhaut S. 10 0 a.
9 vises 4 45 m. Change-
J rises 1 4 m. able, but
.ah S. 9 57 a. mild.
Fomalhaut S. 9 46 a.
Low tides. Becomes
$ 6 21- S 6 3) cooler,
$ rises 1 1 m. with
l5!Fomalhaut S. 9 27
n.
rpogee. <j> greatest Hel
7i? I i>;.? d 5 -Pat _N.
IS R ;..tln-r high tides, wind.
19jMarkab S~ 9 20 a. and
SOAIpherat S. 10 20 a. rain.
21^2 £ D. Mild, but
22A!ieml>S. 10 17 a.
23' g rises 0 54 m. Change-
24J]ftarkan S. 9 1 a. able.
25 Alnherat S. 10 1 a*
26 Al-enih S. 10 2 a.
27|Lo\v rides.
6)
will justify the measure. \V
have 'for years, that this i.3 the onl
which will ensure prosperity and safety to our
southern brethren.'' — AT. If. Observer.*
What is this but explicitly giving
die lie to Jehovah's promises in the
58th chapter of Isaiah ?
3. Observe the testimony of James
A. Thome, of Kentucky.
" I contributed to the funds of the Col. Soc.
1 igized its measures, and duty bids me
late that its direct influence upon my mini!
was to lessen my conviction, of the evil . |
very, and deepen and sanctify my prejudice
ie colored race, I knqio the individ-
ial slaves who are now in bondage by its infln-
'one. I know the m ■ only
plea fof continuing in the sin is drawn from the
Colonization Society."
4. The results as seen in the census
of the U. S. are in perfect keeping
with this testimony.
From 1790 to 1800, the slaves in that terri-
tory which now forms the slave states, increas-
ed 30.2 per. cent, while the free colored popu-
lation in the same territory increased 89.2 per
cent. So we see the free colored people
JBgCWics'hicreased faster than the slaves by 5S-por cent.
-.7 [This must have been chiefly owing.to volun-
j) • COOler unlll tary mariumisskrna From 1800 to 1810, the
29 Shedir on met". 10 17 a. free colored increased faster than t! e
, nib S. 9 46 a
31 J) pon^r-"1. ram. Icreased faster than the slaves by only
[by 41 per-cent. The Col. Soc. was formed in
1316. Froni 1320 to 1330 the free colored in-
ls^&s 'iSjai*SB?w^.::-57
NOV KMBElt begins on THURSDAY. [Is;jS.
About 15 or 20 years ago, a colored man in New Bedford (Ms.) was
well known as the honest and industrious keener of a victualling cellar.
He hud lived there 6 or 8 years, and had a wife and two children. A
I Virginian coming to Is'ew I'edibrd, coveted his neighbor's body and
soul, and obtained a warrant lor his arrest, on the pretence that he had
been guilty of loving liberty better than slavery. The constable went
with hiin to the cellar, but the Virginian (who must have forgotten that
he was not in Virginia) seized the tongs and knocked the man down.
There was soon so much excitement, that the slaveholder, fearing a res-
cue, suffered his Victim to be arrested on a fictitious charge of debt, up- 1
on which he was carried to Taunton jail. The action was soon wkh-j
drawn, and he set free. fJnt the would-be mansteal-er, being arrested.
for assault and battery, after several wee'vs' imprisonment, was sati'ered
to go home, minus several hundred dollars, and without his victim.
MOON'S PHASES.
O Full Moon,
C Last Quarter,
Hour
Iff in. I
r>l a. !© New Moon,
21) a. U First Quarter,
Hour Mm.
3 33 m.
.2 la.
D. W.
0
01a, 2 So.
m. .s.\ h. in.
D m
1 Thurs.|6
2 Friday
SSatiird.
4SUM
5 .Mond. |6 5!
6Tuesd.:7 i
7jWedn.j7 !
8iThurs.!7 1
9,Fridav!7 •
lb;Saturd.j7 I
ll-SUJY. 17 •'
12'Mond. \7 !
13Tuesd.j7 1
14! Wed 11. |7 li
15Thurs.7 1
16' Friday 7 l!
17 S amxl. 7 J J
18 SUM 7 1
1 9 Mond. j7 1.
SOTuesri. 7
2l[Wedn.
adTburs.
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24SaElirt)
2b\SUN.
26jMon<{.
27Timsd.'
28|Wedii.7 24
29.Thn.rg.J7 23
la
16
15 32'
15 22
15 11
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14 36!
14 23;
10 41
11 25
12 81
11 46;
11 25
11 4
10 40
11 39
4 47«
11 30.7|
5 20
morn.
6 1
15
6 50
1 0
7 48
1 50
8 50
2 36
9 59
3 23
11 7
4 17
morn.
5 21
11
6 30
1 15
7 40
2 19
8 39
3 20
9 27
4 20
10 3
5 23
10 35
6 23
11 8
@ sets.
11 42
5 25a
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56
7 12
1 39
8 21
2 24
9 33
3 12
10 47
4 17
morn.
5 9
1
6 23
1 15
7 37
2 30
8 3S
3 43
9 32
5 6
10 22
6 25
11 10
1S3S.] NOVEMBER— ELEVENTH MONTH. [30 days
THE WAY A. VIRGINIAN TREATED A NEW ENGLASDER. [SEE OPTOSITE PAGE.]
Many of tlte northern States have refused to grant to their own citizens a trial by
jury, L-st slaveholders should have too much trouble in stealing men. Massachu-
setts, and New Jersey are the only exceptions.
?_ ]Po"sitio'n7of the Sun, Moon andj A "CONTRAST.
.Tides, Weather, fee. J In n73i John Hcnvar(]) who
was
devoted his life — the reformation of
abuses in prisons. In speaking of the
Fair, /Mji>j°^stress of prisoners; he says,
ie circumstance which excited nie to ac-
tivity in their behalf Was the seeing some, who,
by the ven I; were declared vot
guilty ; after having been confined for
a ] .' ■ (months, dragged back to jail and lucked up
*fl Gf'^ymg] igahi fill they should pay sundry.''
1 ■ Alphcrat S. 0 34 a. Bain.lihen asberiflf, was aroused to the pros-
2;Algenib S. 9 34 a. High ecution of the great work to which he
3 Deheb Kaitos S. 10 1 a.
4* v in sup. £ ©. Tides.
5 « in ^3 .
6 Mirach on mer. 10 10 a.
l[g rises 0 33 in. weather
%Ul rises 3 43 m.
9|^t S. 7 43 a.
*0|cT 6 D - storm of rain, \ This was indeed a flagrant outrage
lllAlpherat S. 8 53 a. with^od no wonder it stirred up the heart
1 2* j) apogee, perhaps a dash\wen of a sheriff', to seek a reforra.
I3\2f/.j). of snow. Cold\ But now, after 60 years have made
14iAI*enib S. 3 46 a. nights.™* nations ring with the praise of
I5l0e°n^b Kail. S. 9 12 a. Howard, there exists, at the capital
ik * •„ ,u ^ 1 t\ « 1 -u ot this <• purest of republics" an
6; g in aph. 2 6J> • 3 6 h Jabuse as m£eh worse thaJn that which
"1*1 6 i>- $ 6 J>: 1uallei ja w<?/^/r//y was forced to spue out of
18 jE stationary, high tides.-jher mou^ as a man,s L1BEKTY is
19jMirach on mer. 9 22 a. [worth more than 18 pence a week. But
20|MenkarS. 11 10 a. -*"ejhas not our democratic president urged
11 :f? rises 0 17 m. clouds ht upon Congress to provide instant re-
dress ? On the contrary, he has
threatened to veto any law which they
may pass, abolishing a system of
foiwhich this outrage forms a part, un-
less it should receive the assent of
[those who practice such enormities.
NOTICE. Was committed to the prison
23i J) perigee. get on rt;of Washington co. D. C. May 19, 1334, .-is a
29 J i 1], snowy COm-'i runaway, . . . DAVID PECK. He s;iya he is
22 J/ rises 3 4m. are
2H^ !©• beginning
24 Deneb Kait. S. 3 35 a.
25|#: £ J). 'Low tides.
26jMirach on mer. 8 52 a.-
27]MenkarS. 10 40 a.
30 g rises 1 1 53 a. plexion.
jFREE. The OWNER is requested, &
!he will be SOLD as the LAW ""
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DECEMBER begins on SATURDAY"
6, 18*36. The queen of Portugal decreed the abolition of the slave
trade, among all her subjects.
7, 1835. Andrew Jackson, in his Message to Congress, accused the
abolitionists of " unconstitutional and wicked attempts," and recom-
mended the destruction of the liberty of the press, in order to stop
their interference with slavery.
18, 4835. An animated debate 'in Congress was called forth by a peti-
tion of some ladies in Wrentham, for the abolition of slavery iri the
Dis. of Columbia. On the 23d, the petition was laid on the table by
a vote of 144 to 66. The ladies can liherate.the slaves if they will.
19, 1829. Act of Georgia annexing the lands of the Cherokees to the
several counties in their vicinity, and denying to Indians the privilege
of witnessing in courts of justice.
COVIN'S PHASES. Day Hour Min. Day Hour Min.
O Full Moon, 1 7 1 m.
C[ First Quarter, 23 10
22 a.
d Last Quarter, 8 6 20 a.
O Full Moon, 30 7
48 a!
Q New Moon, 16 7 43 a.
§
D. W.
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L,. D.
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r. s.
h. in
h. m
. m. s>\ h. in. \h. ' in
\k, in
. place
1
Siitiifd.lT 26 5,9 9 5 53 10 43
morn.
! 4 29a
11 59fl
n
2\SITJY. [7 26 59 7 6 OlO 20
40
5 25
mora.
25
SMond. 7 27 5!9 5 6 1; 9 56
1 1 42
6 30
44
25
4Tue.?d.'7 27 5J9 4 6 21 9 3.2
2 41
7 38
1 27
25
5 Wedn.;7 28 5J9 3 6 3 9 7
3 35
S 47
2 8
£1
6Thurs.j7 28 5 9 2" 6 4; 8 42
! 4 24
9 54
2 46
St
7 Friday |7 29 5 9 16 51 8 16
; 5 11
10 58
3 28
Tfl?
8 Saturth 7 29 5 9 0 ,6 6 7 50
! 5 51
mora.
4 12
17%
9 SUM |7 30 5!8 59 6 71 7 23
: 6 31
1
5 6
-Q-
lOiMond. 7 30 5!8 59 6 S; 6 56
| 7 9
1 0
6 8
£V
IlTuesd.7 31 68 53 6 9 6 28
7 43
2 1
7 18
-Q.
12.Wedn.l7 31 5:S 57 '6 10' 6 0
8 29
3 3
8 20
H
lS,Thurs.i7 32 5:8 56 6 11 5 32
9 11
4 6
9 12
"I
14 Friday J7 32 58 55 6 11 5 3
9 57
5 13
9 57
f
15SatHrd.i7 33 5|8 55 6 12 4 34 10 4S
6 20
10 39
t
16 SUN.
7 33 58 55 6 12 4 5
11 42
$ sets.
11 19
t
l7|Mond.
7 33 5'8 54 6 13 3 36
33a
4 51a
11 59
>?
ISTuesd. 7 S3 5 3 54 6 13 3 6
1 35
5 59
S9a
>?
19,Weiln.J7 33 5!3 53 6 13 2 36
2 31
7 12
1 20
/VW
20Thurs. 7 33 5'8 53 6 13 2 6
3 25
8 27.
2 2
/vw
21 Friday 7 S3 5!s 53
6 14' 1 36
4 16
9 42
2 45
X
22Sat.ird 7 33 5'S 53
o.in.1 1 6
5 3
10 54
3 31
X
23 SUN. 7 33 53 53
0 36
5 50
morn.
4 21
°(°
24'Mond. ;7 S3 5<S 54
1 6
6 36
7
5 22
T
25Tuesd.;7 33 5 3 54
1 slo. 23
7 26
1 19
6 36
26jWedn.'7 33 53 54
1
53
8' 17
2 36
7 52
y
27Thurs. 7 33 5 3 55
1
1 23
9 13
3 53
9 1
y
l 23 Friday 7 32 5 8 55
1
1 52 10 11
5 11
9 59
n
29.Saturd.!7 32 58 56
2
2 22 11 12
6 23
10 51
n
30lSUM. 17 31 53 56
2 2 51
morn.
O rises .11 37
25
SllMond. [7 30 5!3 57
3 3 20 ; 11
5 4a: morn. 1
25
1S3S.] DECEMBER— TWELFTH MONTH. [31 days.;
TUB WAY THE FRIENDS OF LIBERTY ARE TREATED IN AMERICA.
On the 28th of January. 1837, John Hopper, of N. York, was lynched at Sayan
nah. because his father belonged to the same society with Jay, Hush ami Franklin
Positions of the Sun, Moon and
Stars Tides, Weather, &c.
2
S
A
5
G
7
8
9
10
12 Mira S. 8 52 a. Jineplcas-
ISMenkar S. 9 30 a. ant
14| Algol on mer. 9 29 a.
1 5I h 6 J) • weather.
,6| 9 6 !>• Rather high
17, o greatest elong. E. tides. '
lSi § in sup. <$©. 8 <* }>.
19 Algeneb on mer. 9 22 a.
20: %6 21- Fair
21j7*s S. 9 39 a. weather.
22: (v) entersVJ.Wint. begins.
23 Akleharan S. 10 23a.CoM
24; $ rises 113a. Rather low
25;^) Per. gsta'y.S & -tides.
26.7*3 S. 9 17 a. with
27j greatest Hel. Lat. S.
28 Alclebaran S. 9 57 a.
NORTHERN SLAVEHOLDERS.
D ©. Pretty high tides. J- w- Bryan, of N. Y. City, adver-
Mira S. 9 36 a. After sev- tlsed' in a southern paper of Sept. 6,
Menkar S. 10 14 a. era/ ,18f > a lot of "valuable negroes of
Algol on mer. 10 13 a. I'01]1 'fxes for ^le '' Ihey were then
■h \.;««o 11 ^o ^7«,,o «/• m Dallas county, Alabama.
,? rises 11 o'J a. dais 0/1 T . „,, -,'., r r. , u
w .„ . t u , i . c I Israel 1 horndike, ol Boston, who
0 greatest riet. lat. o. r -, , ., j j . L .u
f- 6. ,, ~ ,7 . . failed recently, pretended to be the
21 rises 2 3 m threatening, 0WNER of J laF lot of hunian be.
f/ rf }> . w««/t some snow, ;ngg in Cuba> Q;e of the anti.oboli.
$ □ (£. Low tides, ire |tion speakers at the Faneuil Hall meet-
J) apogee. may expecJ a jng is close)y connected with slavery in
21 6 3) • S in 23- spetf o/the same island.
A Northern Slave. Committed
to the jail of Warren county (Mis.),
June 3, 183(5, a negro boy who says
his name is Samuel Bryen ; light com-
plexion ; Bays that he is a FREE boy,
and lives in ;\ew York, in Orange st.
(signed,) Wm, Evekett.
The law of Mississippi in this case
may be learned from p. 35. Similar
laws exist in the other slaveholding
states, except in Maryland. %*The
Haws in Md. are milder than in D. C
The slaveholders have 25 members
of Congress, and 25 electors of presi-
dent, who are representatives of slave*.
They are paid out of the national trea-
29;g 8 ©. squalls of snow, I on an average> $30,000 per year.
30! $ in perihelion. Lovy V ° * '
31 earth nearest ©. tides.) Monthly Concert last Mond. of each month.'
30
Anti- Slavery Alma. c.
[JS33:
AN ITEM OF HISTOR^.
On the first of January, 1831, the first number of the Liberator
was published in Boston by W. L. Garrison and Isaac Knapp. Dur-
ing the latter part of that year a few individuals determined to form
an Ann-Slavery Society. The first meeting was held December 10,
1831, and the second on January 1, 1832, when the Constitution was
reported and accepted. An adjourned meeting was held on January
6, at which, after much discussion, the following preamble was
adopted, and the society called the New England Anti-Slavery
Society. This was the parent of the 1100 societies now existing.
" We, the undersigned, hold that every person, of full age and sane
mind, has a right to immediate freedom fcom personal bondage of
whatsoever kind, unless imposed by the sentence of the law for the com-
mission of some crime. — We hold that man cannot, consistently with
reason, religion, and the eternakind immutable principles of justice, be
the property of man.— We hold that whoever retains his fellow-man
in bondage is guilty of a grievous wrong.— We hold that mere differ-
ence of complexion is no reason why any man should be deprived of
any of his natural rights, or subjected to any political disability. —
While we advance these opinions as the principles on which we
intend to act, we declare that we will not operate on the existing
relations of society by other than peaceful and lawful means, and
that we will give no countenance to violence or insurrection."
The Constitution was then signed by the following persons,
with one -exception, were then residing in Boston, viz:
William Lloyd Garrison, John E. Fuller,
Isaac Knapp, Moses Thacher,
Joshua Coffin, Arnold Buffum,
Eobert B. Hall. Benjamin C. Bacon, *
William J. Snelling, Henry K. Stockton,
Stillman B. Newcomb, Oliver Johnson.
At the adoption of the Constitution, January 1, the following per-
sons were present, who would have signed it, with the preamble, at
the meeting on January 6, dould they have had the opportunity, viz.
Alonzo Lewis, of Lynn, Abijah Blanchard and John Cutts Smith, of
Boston.
Officers of the Society for 1832.
Arnold Buffum, Pres. ; James C. Odiorne, 1st V. P. ; Alonzo
Lewis, 2d V. P. ; Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Cor. Sec. ; Joshua Coffin,
Rec. Sec; Michael H. Simpson, Treas. ; Moses Thacher, John E.
Fuller. Oliver Johnson, Robert B. Hall, Benjamin C Bacon, and
Samuel E. Sewall, Counsellors.
who,
PRINCIPLES OF ABOLITIONISTS.
I Extracts from the Constitution of the American And- Slavery Society.
Art. II. The object of this Society is the entire abolition of slavery
in the United States. While it admits that each State in which
J slavery exists has, by the Constitution of the United States, the ex-
i elusive right to legislate in regard to its abolition in said State, it
I shall aim to convince all our fellow-citizens, by arguments addressed
to their understandings and consciences, that slave-holding is a HE I-
1S3S]
Anti-Slavery Almanac. 31
NOUS SIN in the sight of God, and that the DUTY, SAFETY and
BEST INTERESTS -of all concerned, require its immediate abandon-
ment, without expatriation. The Society will also endeavor, in a
constitutional way, to influence Congress to put an end to the domes-
tic slave trade, and to abolish slavery in all those portions of our
common country which'-come under its control, especially in the
District of Columbia, — and likewise to prevent the extension of it to
any State that may hereafter he admitted into the Union.
Akt. III. This Society shall aim to elevate the character and
condition of the people of color, by encouraging their intellectual,
moral and religious improvement, and by removing public prejudice,
that thus they may, according to their intellectual and moral worth,
share an equality with the whites of civil and religious privileges ;
but this Society will never, in any way, countenance the oppressed in
vindicating their rights by resorting to physical force.
SOUTHERN TESTIMONY.
A Somerset.
A few years ago a strange delusion had obtained entire ascendency
over the public mind. Slavery had been so long written about, talked
of, and prayed over, as ua great evil" that most people really supposed
it was, like the cholera, the yellow fever or the pestilence, a "dispen-
sation of Providence," to be patiently endured, until the same Power
which sent it among us should, " in his own good time," remove it.
The slave-holders at the south adopted the same language; and pite-
ous indeed were their lamentations about the "entailed curse," the
"dread calamity," the "sad inheritance," and the "heavy burden."
But when the question of the admission of Missouri was agitated, in
IS 19, they then assumed the altitude of a snarling cur, with a litter
of young puppies. They suddenly stopped their whining, and com-
menced growling and showing their teeth, and bristling up their
mane, as if something dear as their very existence was at stake.
They threatened to dissolve the Union unless the burden beneath
which they were groaning should be bound upon the shoulders of that
young State. The north was frightened, and consented to please the
south, by extending the sore evil with which they were already
afflicted.
This excitement was soon almost forgotten, and the south resumed
her former lamentations about the" "great evil." They desired the
sympathy of the north for their sufferings, if they could have it without
a rebuke for their guilt. The Colonization Society humored the same
feeling, and used corresponding language. This was the state of
things in 1830, when a very few philanthropists were aroused to a
contemplation of the wickedness of slave-holding. They spread the
truth before the minds of the nation, till many consciences were
aroused from their death-like slumber.
Slave-holders perceived that their own admissions were fatal to trie
institution to which their hearts, by long habit, had become wedded,
and, with an inconsistency natural to guilt and error, they flatly
contradicted theirown former statements, and pronounced slavery to
be a great blessing.
We here intend to put on record a few of the avowals they for-
merly made. They could have no motive to make things appear
worse than they really were.
Slavery fatal to the Peace of the Whites.
The following is from a " Letter to a Member of the Virginia Le-
gislature/' published at Richmond, Va^, and republished at Balti-
more, in 1801.
" You must have observed that some truths, which their SELF-
EVIDENCE and importance have rendered familiar to the mind,
are. on this very account, often disregarded. Of this nature is the
ganger arising from domestic slavery. EVERY MAN is persuaded
of the reality of this danger ; no man denies its magnitude." " ALL
agree that the danger is great and CERTAIN."
" The increase of knowledge is the principal agent in evolving the
spirit we have to fear. The love of freedom, sir, is an inborn senti-
ment, which the God of nature has planted deep in the heart : long
may it be kept under by the arbitrary institutions of society ; but, at
the first favorable moment, it springs forth, and flourishes with a
vigor that defies all check." " They [the slaves] possess the physi-
cal power of doing us mischief; and are invited to it by motives
which self-love dictates, which REASON JUSTIFIES'! ! "
What more fatal stab could slavery receive ? The writer occupies
two or three pages in showing that "no system of rigor can reach
the first causes of the evil," and says he dwells upon this " because
it is the favorite topic of the 'day," and adds, " Whenever we are in-
volved in war, if our enemies hold out the lure of freedom, they will
have, in EVERY NEGRO, a DECIDED FRIEND."
From the speech of Mr. Moore in the Virginia House of Delegates,
1832. V I think that slavery, as it exists among us, may be regarded
as the HEAVIEST CALAMITY which has ever befallen any por-
tion of the human race. If we look back through the long course of
time which has elapsed from the creation to the present moment, we
shall scarcely be able to point out a people whose situation was not
in many respects preferable to our own, and that of the other states in
which negro slavery exists. True, sir, we shall see nations which
have groaned under the yoke of despotism for hundreds and thousands
of years, but the individuals composing those nations have enjoyed a
degree of happiness , peace ', and freedom from apprehensions, which the
holders of slaves in this country can NEVER KNOW."
A letter from Virginia, dated about the same time, says : " These
insurrections have alarmed my wife so as really to endanger her health,
and I have not slept without anxiety for three months. Our nights are
sometimes spent in listening to noises. A corn song or a hog call has
often been a subject of nervous terror, and a cat in the dining-room
will banish sleep for the night. There is a panic in all this country."
i Virginian once invited a friend of mine into his sleeping-cham-
ber, and showed him a GUN and TWO PISTOLS, declaring thru for
20 years, he had not been to bed without first examining their priming,
that he might be sure they were ready to use at a moment's warning.
Immediate abolitionists wish to remove the cause of th;s wretched-
ness and alarm. Would slaves injure their friends ? Certainly not.
Then let all the slave-holders become their friends, and all will be safe.
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PICTURES OF SLAVERY BY SLAVE-HOLDERS.
We are often cautioned against receiving Ftaterrients of northern- J
ers respecting slavery ; and as for the stories of the slafbs them- j
selves, there are multitudes who never for a moment entertain the j
idea of giving them credit. The slave-holder, though a part;/ con- j
cerned, arid of course inadmissible as a witness in a court of justice, \
is the only witness admitted by many to the court of the American
public. Even this witness we have not the privilege of cross-question- j
irig; We can only listen to his own story in his own case, and then |
make the most of it. Let us .call a few such to the stand. [On this
point the reader is referred to The Evils and Cure of Slavery, by Mrs.
Child ; A. S. Record, Vol. III. No. 1 ; Address of Ky. Synod,' &c]
I. The first point to be proved is that slaves are often TREATED
WITH GREAT CRUELTY.
The following is from thd Clinton (Miss.) Gazette, July 23d, 183(3.
WAS COMMITTED
TO the jail of Covington county a negro man. who says his name
is JOSIAH. He is heavy built, copper-colored, his buck VERY
MUCH SCARRED with the whip, and BRANDED on t he thigh
in three or four places, thus (I. M.) or (J. M.) ; the M. is very plain,
but the I. or J. is not plain ; the rim of his right ear has been bit or cut
off. The owner, <5cc. J. L. Jolley, Sheriff C. C.
" Williamsburg, June 28th, 1836.
The following is from the speech of Mr. Moore, beforre referred
to. The object of this speech is not to show the wrongfulness of
slavery, but its impolicy. The testimony is therefore incidental.
Mr. Moore is contending that "it is impossible, in the nature of
things, that slaves can be virtuous and moral."
"He is habituated, from his earliest infancy, to sacrifice truth with;
out remorse as the only means of escaping punishment, which is too.
apt to be inflicted, WHETHER MERITED OR NOT. The can-
did avowal of the fault, which a kind parent is disposed to regard in
his child as the evidence of merit, is SURE to be considered by the
master as INSOLENCE in a slave, and to furnish additional reason
for inflicting punishment upon him. The slave perceives that he
can never attain to the least distinction in society, however fair and
unexceptionable his conduct may be ; and that however INNOCENT
"he may be, he is OFTEN liable to the SEVEREST PUNISHMENT,
at the will of hireling overseers, without even the form of a trial."
What sort ..of men are the overseers? Let Mr. Wirt (a Vir-
ginian) answer. "Last and lowest, a feculum of beings called
overseers — the most abject, degraded, unprincipled race."
We might fill this No. with their own published records of cruelty.
II. The second point is that FAMILY TIES ARE OFTEN
BROKEN UP.
£>£)() DOLLARS REWARD.— Absconded from my estate in
^*J\J -Goochland county* (Dover,) in August last, slave WASP]
INGTON . . . very active and sprightly. He was purchased of
M'Lane's estate, in January, 1S36, at George's tavern in Goochland
— had been a waterman on James River'for several years ; is well
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known and- has a WIFE and other relations about Columbia and
Cartersville, where it is believed he may now be found. I will pay a
reward of $100 for his delivery to my manager at Dover,' $50 if se-
cured in any jail in Virginia so that 1 may get him again, or $250
if taken out of the State and restored to me. JOHN HETH,
Jan. 30, 1837. Richmond P. O.
It seems that, instead of being " anxious to get rid of them," they
become more and more anxious to get them back the farther off they
get-
$9^ REWARD. Ranaway, my man CHARLES. HIS WIFE
W&lJ was carried off in April last by Mr. Wilkins Edwards, of
Mississippi.
The above reward, flee. WILLIAM JONES,
Of Lombardy Grove, Mecklenburgh, Va.
Sept. 23, 1836.
But as no man who understands the subject will deny this proposi-
tion, I will not enlarge. The reader will of course remember that
large class of advertisements offering " cash and the highest price for
likely YOUNG negroes of BOTH sexes from TWELVE to TWEN-
TY-FIVE,'' &c. How can these be had without tearing families
asunder? A Virginian lately told me this was done "oftentimes-"
A young Virginian attending Harvard University said to me that he
had had a hand in such transactions,- and expected to again.
III, The third point to be proved is that these slaves have the
qualifications for TAKING CARE OF THEMSELVES.
A Liberal Reward for PETER, Confectioner and Baker. 1836.
$5Q for JOHN, very intelligent. 1836.
FOR SALE. A negro woman, a good plain cook, washer and
ironer, is honest, sober, and of good disposition. 1836.
A Liberal Reward for ROSANNA, intelligent, quick spoken, and
capable of giving an account of herself. If any honest man knows
any thing concerning her, it is hoped that he will give me immediate
notice. Vicksburg, Aug. 29, 1836. WM. A. BRICKELL.
For sale, a very likeiy negro girl, of most excellent character, ac?
customed to housework and nursing.
A negro girl, about 15 years old, a good house servant or FIELD
HAND. ' Apply at this office. Augusta, Ga. Constitutionalist.
[Printed by a native of New England.]
For sale, the girl MARIA, aged 16, a good cook, and guarantied a
thorough servant: for smartness SHE CANNOT BE EXCELLED.
March, 1837. [Color not mentioned.]
A Liberal Reward for FREDERICK. He is sufficiently intelligent
and cunning 'to evade the ordinary means of detection. March, 1837.
IV. The fourth point is that slavery is a great system of AMAL-
GAMATION, and that our southern brethren often ENSLAVE their
CHILDREN and other near relatives.
$1 00 REWARD will be given for the apprehension of my ne-
W±\JV gro EDMUND KENNEY, alias ROBERTS. He has
STRAIGHT hair, and a complexion so nearly WHITE, that a stran-
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ger would suppose there was NO African blood in him. He is so
very artful, that in his language it is likely he will deceive those who
might suspect him. He was with my boy Dick a short time since in
Norfolk, and offered him for sale, and was apprehended, but escaped
under the PRETENCE of being a WHITE MAN.
ANDERSON BOWLES,
Jan. 6, 1837. Dentonville P. 0.
tSlOO REWARD.
j 13 ANA WAY from James Hughart, Paris, Ky.,
^jc/-*^ tb-e Mulatto Boy NORBON, aged about 15
js j years; a very bright mulatto, ^nd would be taken
for a WHITE BOY if not closely examined ; his
hair is black and STRAIGHT. Aug. 4, 1836.
ABSCONDED from the subscriber, her negro man JOHN. He
has a very LIGHT complexion, prominent nose, &e.
Charleston Mercury, 1837. W. J. SANGL01S.
8100 REWARD.
RANAWAY from the Subscriber, living in Sumter
Co. Ala., a bright mulatto man slave named SAM,
calls himself SAM"PETTIGREW* . . . LIGHT SAN-
DY HAIR and blue eyes, RUDDY complexion, very
stout built, and will weigh about ISO pounds ; he is
?o white as very easily to pass for a free white mam. . . He carries
a small memorandum book in his pocket, and will pass very easily
for a white man unless closely examined — is a first-rate blacksmith
and barber. EDWIN PECK.
Mobile, April 22, 1837.
V. The fifth point to be proved is that FREE men are often sold
into slavery io pay the expense of THEIR OWN UNJUST IMPRIS-
ONMENT.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Warren County, by Win. Everett,
one of the JUSTICES of said county, a Negro MAN who calls
himself JOHN J. ROBINSON; says that he is FREE. The
OWNER of the said BOY is requested to come forward, prove
PROPERTY, pay charges and take him awav. or he will be dealt
with as the law directs. WM. EVERETT, Jailer.
And how does the law direct ? Read the following :
NOTICE is hereby given, that the above described BOY, who
calls himself John J. Robinson, having been confined in the
Jail of Warren county as a Runaway for six months — and having
been regularly advertised during this period, — I shall proceed to SELL
said Negro boy .at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, at
the door of the Court-house in Vicksburg, on Monday, 1st day of Au-
gust, 1836, between the hours of 1 1 o'clock A.M. and 4 o'clock P. M.
of said day, in pursuance of the STATUTE in such cases made
and provided. E. W. MORRIS, Sheriff.
Vicksburg, July 2, 1836.
* So we might, perhaps, see, "ARCHY, calls himself ARCHY MOORE," adver-
tised by Cot. Carter.
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In the same paper it is advertised that DICK COLEMAN, who j
says that he is a free inhabitant of Tennessee, will be SOLD at j
public Auction, &c. -
Let it be observed, that these men are seized and imprisoned
without proof that they were ever slaves. Instead of the men being
presumed to be free till they were proved to be slaves, they are sold
into slavery after they are virtually PROVED to be FREE. If any I
man had lost such slaves, he would of course be on the lookout, and j
it would be almost impossible, for him net to hear of their being
advertised. And after being advertised six months, the presumption
that they were free would fall little short of absolute certainty.
VI. The sixth point to be proved is that such is the state of public
sentiment at the south, that slave-holders are not ashamed to ADVER-
TISE that they are MURDERERS ! ! !
^9|]f| REWARD. — Ran away from the subscriber about three
Wr^iJXJ years Gg0) a negro man named BEN ; also one ether ne-
gro by the name of RIDGDON, who ranaway about "the 8th of this
month. I will give the above reward of $100 for each of the above
negroes, &c. or for the KILLING of them so that I can see them.
November 12, 1836. W. D. COBB.
WHAT HAS THE CHURCH TO DO WITH SLAVERY?
The following article was communicated by a clergyman whose
father is a slave-holder in the District of Columbia. He was former- j
ly an agent of the Colonization Society, but he became convinced i
that that Society was the handmaid of slavery, and abandoned it.
He is now laboring zealously in the cause of emancipation. If such
things are publicly practised by ministers in Maryland, .who can
conceive the atrocities perpetrated by unprincipled planters in the
extreme south ?
( Perry ville, near Valley P.. 0.,
N. Southard, j Pa., March 28th, 1837.
Dear Sir : Accept the following as a mite cast into your trea-
sury of facts, in regard to that odious and impious system of
slavery that curses our country, and desecrates the sanctuary, pollul-
j ing the priest and staining the church with blood. It has been com-
municated to me by a dear brother in the ministry of the gospel,
like myself raised in the South, and familiar with slavery, but who is
not yet wholly an Abolitionist. Accept this communication from my-
self, as a feeble expression of my detestation of a system of " Robbe-
ry, Lust, Barbarism and Impiety," sanctioned though it be by human
laws, and fathered by the professing church. And were the dear
brother, of whom I speak, present with me, now while I write, I
doubt not he would say, " accept this statement as my joint testimony
against that system, with which, as Southerners born, we. are ac-
nnainted." Let me add, I pray you to accept this communication,
as a small thank-offering on my part to Almighty God, for my deliver-
ance from that prejudice against our colored brethren, which was
begotten and fostered in my heart by the devil and Colonization.
Yours, &c. JAMES NOURSE.
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The Rev. Mr. M , how of ihe Huntingdon Presbytery, after an
absence of many months, was about visiting his old friends on what
is commonly called'fhe "Eastern Shore." Late in the afternoon, on
his journey, he called at the house of Rev. A. C. of P town, Md.
With this brother he had been long acquainted. Just at that junc-
ture Mr. C. was about proceeding to whip a colored female, who was
his slave. She was firmly tied to a po^st in FRONT of his dwelling-
house. The arrival of a clerical visitor at such a time, occasioned a
temporary delay in the execution of Mr. C.'s purpose. But the delay
was only temporary ; for not even the presence of such a guest could
destroy the bloody design. The guest interceded with ail the mild-
ness yet earnestness of a brother and new visitor. But all in vain,
'•' the woman had been saucy and must be punished." The cowhide
was accordingly produced, and the Rev. Mr. C, a large and very
stout man, applied it " manfully " on " woman's " bare and " shrink-
ing fiesh." I say bare, because you know that the slave women gen-
erally have but about three or four inches of the arm near the shoul-
der covered, and the neck is left entirely exposed. As the cowhide
moved back and forward, striking right and left, on the head, neck
and arms, at every [e\v strokes the sympathizing guest would ex-
claim, " 0, Brother C, desist." But Brother C. pursued his brutal
work, till, after inflicting about sixty lashes, the woman was found to
be suffused with blood on the hinder part of her neck, and under her
frock between the shoulders. After the punishment was over, and
the woman dismissed, Mr. M took advantage of an opportunity
which occurred, affectionately to reprove the brother who had so
grossly offended against decency, and justice, and mercy. Some
others, members of the family, united with him in reprobating the
affair.' The reply, however, is worthy of note, viz. that he (Mr. C.)
had done it before, but it was a dirty business, and he believed he never
mould do it again. Yet this Rev. gentleman is well esteemed in the
church — was, three or four years since, moderator of the synod ot
Philadelphia, and yet walks abroad, feeling himself unrebuked by
law or gospel. Ah, sir, does not this narration give fearful force to
the query — What has the church to do milk slavery ? Comment on the
facts is unnecessary, yet allow me to conclude by saying, that it is
my opinion such occurrences are not rare in the south. - J. N.
REASONS FOR AMERICAN SLAVERY.
Before naming any of them, it may be remarked that none of
them are "probably very strung. Strong men are not apt to cry out
for help. Strong reasons are never afraid to meet weak ones alone.
But the reasons for slavery are always calling in BRUTE FORCE
to their aid. Let us see what some of these reasons can say for them-
selves.
1. The slaves arc an inferior race.
Then why make laws against teaching them? One would think,
from the pains taken to keep them from learning, they were terrible
scholars. Lock books from numbskulls ! — and by acts of the Legis-
lature too! Which end of sum laws do the biggest fools stand at?
Ask the schoolmasters.
But suppose they fire inferior, what then? They are only an in-
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ferior race of men — MEN, after all, and not brutes. If their inferior-
ity justly makes them slaves, then all inferior sort of people ought tO'
be slaves. Many who are now free should be reduced to slavery.
There should be government inspectors of humanity — measurers or
weighmasters of brains, who should chalk every man's size, weight
and quality on his forehead, as if he were a barrel of pork or macke-
rel, so that we might know what people to enslave and what to leave
at liberty. Those found below a certain mark (we don't profess to
know who is to fix it) should be set up at auction directly. Such
people were plainly never designed to have pay for their work, to
own property, to have inalienable rights, &c. &c. This reason for
slavery is too good by half. -
2. The slaves are black.
This we believe is one of the strongest reasons for their enslave-
ment. We have heard of a slave-holding lady, who, when pressed
for reasons, could give no other. At length she was helped to an-
other almost equally strong by an idiot who stood by, and, perceiving
her embarrassment, sagely exclaimed ''Mother, they've got woolly
heads too." " Yes, they've got woolly heads too" repeated the lady !
These powerful reasons are almost the only ones which do not
apply with equal force to the enslavement'of the whites.
3. Slavery always has existed in some shape or other.
A very good and useful argument this. It may be summed up
thus : whatever has been, ought to be. It would help all sorts of thieves,
if some were not too modest to aceept its services. It is good for
drunkenness and fornicatic-n. It can also turn a hand to cutting
masters' throats. We therefore advise the masters to keep -it to them-
selves, and not lend it to other malefactors. Note. The learned
Professor Dew and others have gained great glory by the use of this
argument.
4. The slaves could not take care of themselves, if they were set free.
When and where was the trial made, and when and where did it
fail ? We have heard of some trials but of no failures. The slaves
are used to work. The masters want their services. It would be
strange if people who have been so long under such "kind guard-
ians" snould not know enough to buy corn and cloth with their
wages. Would the venders of these articles take advantage of their
ignorance to cheat them ? How much more then would they do it
if they had the whole bargain in their own hands, if, in other words.
they " owned " them I What, strip a man, his heirs and assigns for-
ever, of every thing under heaven, to save him from being cheated ?
Most effectual prevention ! In the same way any disease may be
prevented by cutting" a person's head off.
Slavery is a strange way of taking care of people who are unable
to take care of themselves. Why not have a legal inquiry into each
individual case, and let the. judge appoint the guardians, where they
are needed, and hold them to bail for their good management of the
affairs of the ward, as is done in the case of whites who are non com-
pos ? Surely some slaves ^can take care of themselves, for they do so
the first opportunity they^get of running away. From self-appointed
guardians, good Lord deliver the poor and the needy !
5. The slaves would not work if they were free.
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Then they would get no pay. What right has any man to do any
thing more than to refuse pay to another who refuses to work ?
.But who knows that the slaves would refuse to work for wages, it
they had a chance ? Wherever slaves have been freed they have
•readily worked for wages. They did so in St. Domingo. They have
done so in the British Colonies. Read what the Select Committee of
the British Parliament, after long inquiry and hearing the evidence
of all parties, have reported about the working of the apprenticeship.
" In the evidence which they (the committee) have received, they
find abundant proof of the general good conduct of the apprentices,
and of their WILLINGNESS TO WORK FOR WAGES whenever
they are fairly and considerately treated by their employers. It is,
indeed, fully proved that the labor, thus voluntarily performed by the
negro, is more effective than thai which was obtained from him in a state
of slavery, or which is now given to his employer during the period
for which he is compelled to work as an apprentice." In Antigua,
where emancipation was immediate and entire, they work better
than any where else.
6. The slaves would cut their masters' throats if they were set free.
Which most fear having their throats cut now, those who have
freed their slaves or those who retain them? The planters of the
British West Indies have lost their fear so much since the 1st of
August 1834, that the European troops before considered necessary
to guard them, are now chiefly withdrawn, and many of the richest
colonies are guarded- almost entirely by negro troops ! Foes have
been turned into friends by emancipation in the West Indies. "Why
would not the same cause produce the same effect in the United
States ? How many cases of throat-cutting can be traced to emanci-
pation as the cause ? Not one. How many, to slave-holding ?
Thousands,
7. The two races could not live together in peace, on terms of equality.
Do they live in peace on their present terms ? Chains, stripes.
murders, and the pistols under the pillow of the planter, answer, NO.
Theft, desertion and insurrections answer, NO. Slavery is a perpet-
ual war of the strong upon the weak, of the rich upon the poor.
Emancipation could not possibly make matters worse.
But what do we mean by " terms of equality V Fair play. Letting
every man have a fair chance. Terms of equality are the only terms
on which there can be peace.
8. The freedom of the blacks will lead to amalgamation.
So will and does slavery. It is a strange way of preventing amal-
gamation, to set up all the colored women to be sold at auction to
the highest white bidders ! What, license unbridled amalgamation,
bastard-wise, by slavery, and keep millions in slavery lest a white
individual should choose to marry a black one ! — and that in a free
country ! ! Shame, where is thy blush ? E. Wright, Jr.
Liberty cannot live and flourish without the triumph of Abolition-
ism, which teaches that ALL MEN have, by birth, a right to liberty.
I if this sentiment should prevail, slavery will be abolished, of course.
I But if it be not the public sentiment that ALL have a right to liberty,*
I then NO security is left for the liberty of ANY MAN.
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CONSPIRACY AGAINST NORTHERN FREEDOM.
Working-men of the north ! if you are not resolved to keep your
eyes closed in leaden slumber, and your ears fast stopped until the
triple chains of slavery are- fastened around your limbs, AWAKE
NOW, or it will be too late.
I warn you against placing any confidence in your political lead-
ers, of either party. There are very few among them who would
not see you all made slaves if they could thereby acquire promotion.
The " Republican members of the New-York Legislature " put forth
an address last May, in which they say that they and their southern
brethren are engaged in " the same holy cause of political liberty, >r
and they try to discourage any discussion of the subject of slavery.
Gov. Everett, a Whig governor of Massachusetts, recommended, in
a carefully studied annual message, that we should, as an act of
patriotism, refrain from a discussion of the inalienable rights of man.
When this advice is complied with, the yeomanry of the north will
be ready for the gag and the chain.
The following extracts will show the nature of that political liberty,
in whose " holy cause" northern politicians are so ready to unite
with southern slave-holders. We will not now quote those newspaper
paragraphs which have asserted that " the people at the north must
HANG ABOLITIONISTS in order to preserve southern trade/'' or
that " public opinion at the south would justify southern members of
Congress in DRAGGING from their floor" an ex-president of the
United States, or that any man who should presume to speak to the
slave-holders on the immorality of slavery, " in. that same moment
should have his tongue cut out and cast upon a dung-hill." Let these
things go for fheiivvalue. We take official documents.
The following is extracted from resolutions "agreed to by both
houses of the Virginia Legislature, Feb. 10, 1836."
Resolved, That the non-slaveholding States of the Union are re-
spectfully but earnestly requested promptly to adopt PENAL EN-
ACTMENTS or -such other measures as will EFFECTUALLY
SUPPRESS ALL associations within their respective limits, pur-
porting to be, or having the character of, abolition societies.
The following is from resolutions " read three times and ratified
in General Assembly" of North Carolina, Dec. 19, 1835.
'Resolved, That our sisler states are respectfully requested to enact
PENAL LAWS, prohibiting the PRINTING within their respective
limits ALL such publications as MAY have a TENDENCY to
make our slaves discontented.
A compliance with this request would make 'it ILLEGAL to
print the EIRLE. Nearly all newspapers would be suppressed.
And even those- violent pro-slavery papers whose mottoes declare,
•'•'The world is governed too much," or "I have sworn upon the altar
of God, eternal hostility to EVERY FORM of TYRANNY over the
mind of man," would not be spared.
* The following is from resolutions "unanimously" adopted by both
branches of the South Carolina Legislature, Dec. W, 1835.
Resolved, That the Legislature of South Car'Ima, having every
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ANNOUNCES her CONFIDENT EXPECTATION, and she ear-
nestly requests, that the governments of these states will promptly
andEFFECTUALLY SUPPRESS ALL those associations within
their respective limits purporting to be abolition societies, &c. .&cc.
From resolutions adopted "unanimously" by the Leg. of Georgia.
Resolved, That it is deeply incumbent on the people of the north to
CRUSH the traitorous designs of the abolitionists.
From resolutions of Alabama Legislature, January 7, 1836.
Resolved, That we call upon our sister states, and respectfully re-
quest them to enact such PENAL LAWS as will finally PUT AN
END to the' malignant deeds of the abolitionists.
The spirit which dictated these resolutions will not rest satisfied
until the all-grasping spirit of slavery has swallowed up all rights
except the right claimed by the strong and the cunning to traffic in
the bodies and souls of the weak and the ignorant.
These insulting resolutions, however, should excite less indigna-
tion than the base treachery of the northern office-holders, who, while
they knew that such demands were put forth, instead of arousing the
slumbering spirit of northern liberty, did their utmost to gag those
faithful sentinels who were raising the alarm.
la view of these demands, ponder well the following, from a faith-
ful sentinel at the outer gate oi^ Freedom's temple.
TO THE LABORING PEOPLE of the free states.
Who are the laboring people of the north ? They are those who
cat not the bread of, idleness, who "labor, working with their own
hands," who practically illustrate the holy precept, " If any man will
not work, neither shall he eat ; " — who " earn their daily bread by their
.7." and (here/ore, according lo Mr. Senator Leigh, of Va., aare
incapable of civil and political freedom ! " — The men who, according
to Gov. M'Duffie of S. C, are "a dangerous element of the body
politic,'? and must be enslaved within 25 years, whatever may be
their color, " bleached or unbleached," in order to save the country
from agrarian legislation and anarchy ! — in order to preserve
<' the corner-stone of our republican edifice ! "
Farmers ! working-men ! what do you think of this doctrine ?
Must the hardy yeomanry of New England and the middle states be
made slaves ? Is it true that a laboring people are incapable of free-
dom ? Can none be free but idlers ? Are they the most virtuous ? —
The most intelligent ? — The most orderly? — The most law-abiding?
Let facts answer. Put you need no argument to convince you of
the wickedness and folly of tiie assumption.
Ail yet it is a doctrine that prevails, more or less, everywhere.
Tt is t- i doctrine of slave-holders and their apologists. It is heard
every day at the east and the north. It is the doctrine of all aristo-
crats— all who look down with scorn upon the common people, and
pride themselves upon their splendor, and wealth, und high standing
above their neighbors. It is a doctrine that will be carried out into
practice, before long, to its fullest extent, unless abolitionism gains
the upper hand, and slavery is put down. This is not said without
reflection. Look at some of the reasons for this belief.
I. The slave-holders have determined to bring it to pass. I mean
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the most intelligent and influential among them. I-have already-
quoted the language of two prominent southern statesmen. They are
th* favorite statesmen of the slave-holders. And let it be remem-
bered that there are slave-holders at the north I Our large cities
abound with them. Not only so ; large plantations with their slaves
are mortgaged to merchants and brokers in New York. These are
the men that get up anti -abolition meetings and mobs to express
public sentiment. Hence we see, •
2. Not only the slave holders, but their apologists at the north, are
bent upon the accomplishment of the same object. Is the proof de-
manded ?-^-It is at hand ! Lock at the next item.
' 3. They have actually put 'measures in train for the accomplish-
, ment of their object. There is a perfect agreement and understand-
ing between the northern and southern aristocrats on this subject.
The southern demand is, that freedom of speech and of the press
shall be put down at the north. Gov. M'Duihe judges those who
maintain that all men have a right to liberty, to be worthy of •'•' death
without benefit of clergy." To this sentiment the legislature of S. C.
fully responds. Gov. Marcy, of N. Y., in his Message, says, " With-
out the power to enact such laws" the States would not be able to
maintain the relations of peace among themselves. Gov. Everett,
of Massachusetts, suggested that the persons denounced by Gov.
M'Dufiie were '''indictable at common law^ without any special
enactment. A bill was actually introduced into the legislature of
R. I. in conformity with the southern demands. Hon. "VVm. Sullivan
and Rev. T. R. Sullivan, of Mass., wrote a pamphlet maintaining
that " the village and country inhabitants " ought to be prevented by
adequate pains and penalties from assembling to hear lectures against
slavery. The Literary and Theological Review, conducted by Rev.
Leonard Woods, Jr., patronized by many leading ministers in New
England and the middle states, and commended by religious news-
papers of extensive influence, has declared the leading abolitionists
"justly liable to the highest civil penalties and ecclesiastical censurtsP
Numerous northern ministers have endeavored to prove that the
Bible does not forbid slavery, and that it is wrong to condemn the
practice as sinful.
These are a few of the measures simultaneously put in train, at
the north and the south. It needs no argument to prove their object,
and their adaptation to secure that object. The character of such
measures is too plain to require comment. Men who will uphold
and vindicate such measures show plainly that they would enslave
their fellow-citizens if they could. They deny to them the most im-
portant, inalienable and sacred rights of human beings, in the out-
set. To suppose that they would not reduce human beings to slave-
ry is to suppose that they would not act out their own avowed and
openly professed principles — and principles, too, which they have
acted out, as far as they have had the power.
4. The manner in which southern demands have been met' by
northern politicians proves conclusively that their Sympathies are
strongly enlisted on the jade of the slave-holders. Instead of standing
up manfully in behalf of insulted freedom, they have manifested a
disposition to go as far as they dared in compliance, with those arro-
gant and despotic demands. Witness the reply of Gov. Marcy to
the demand for an innocent citizen of N. Y., the utter inaction of
the legislature of Mass. when the SOVEREIGN AUTHORITIES
of Georgia offered $5000 for a free citizen of Mass., — and the cring-
ing, grovelling disposition manifested by the legislatures of most of
the northern states.
5. The effort is not yet relinquished ! With the exception, perhaps,
of Mass., Vt. and R. I., no non-slaveholding state, at this moment,
is free from impending danger of a gag-law!
By the legislature of the state of N. Y. a report was adopted in
May, 1836, responding to the sentiments of Gov. Marcy, and pledg-
ing the faith of the state to enact such laws whenever they shall be
required! This rep«.n was sent to the authorities of the south, but
suppressed at the north ! The citizens of N. Y. in general were ig-
norant of its contents till they saw it quoted, the winter following, in
the Message of the acting governor of Virginia I The Farewell Ad-
dress of Andrew Jackson — the Inaugural of Pres. Van Buren — the j
Address of members of the legislature of N. Y., considered in con- J
nection with the Message of the executive of Va. and the proceed- j
ings of the legislature of Illinois, render it certain that the project of
suppressing freedom of speech and of the press is by no means j
relinquished.
6. There is a still darker side of the picture. The measures of :
the slave party have already begun to succeed! Freedom of debate in i
Congress has been put down. A distinguished representative has j
been threatened with assassination — with expulsion — with indict-
ment by the grand jury of the slave-holding District ! And for what I
crime? For advocating the abolition of slavery in the Federal Dis- j
trict ? No! — For defending the right of freemen to petition! For
this he is denounced as the " Massachusetts madman ! " An act oi
madness to assert the right of petition in the free ! Yet the same
Congress give us to understand that the FORFEITURE of the right
of petition is the peculiar BADGE OF THE SLAVE! At the
same instant, they virtually annul the right of petition in freemen !
The same Congress has refused to consider a petition in favor f the
Declaration of Independence — a petition which made no mention oi
slavery — on the ground that it was an anti-slavery petition !
The liberty of freemen cannot survive such a process. Liberty'
is gone, if the people may not freely discuss, write, speak and peti-
tion on any subject, and express whatever sentiments they please.
How much more when human rights is the only subject interdicted ! !
— When sentiments of liberty are the only sentiments that are
forbidden !
If color were ever a barrier between freedom and slavery, it is a
barrier rapidly fading out of sight. There has been a contest be- I
tween the interests of free and slave labor, in this country, for fifty
years. They cannot live together much longer, and one or the
other must triumph upon the ruins of its antagonist. The slave in-
terest is making a desperate struggle. It demands Texas first, and
then the Mexican states ! With such additional power, what will .
become of the freedom of the north? Farmers! mechanics ! opera- j
fives and laboring men ! consider these things. AVm. Gqopell-.
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STORY OF ANTHONY GAYLE.
In November 1836, 1 first heard of Mr. Ga3"le of New York,- who
was recommended by those who knew him, as an excellent, trust-
worth}'- man. I called on him, and wrote the following story as I
received it from his lips, which, at my request he signed. It is here
much abridged. Editor.
I was born May i5, 1794, in Princess Ann County, Va. near Nor-
folk. I had three brothers and three sisters, all older than myself.
Before I was two years old, we were all removed to N. C. near Eden-
ton, where my mother died about eight years after. WEile the earth
was yet fresh on her grave, two of my brothers shared a fate more
dreadful than that which had befallen her. ' ie slave-traders carried
them away. Before I was seventeen, they finished the work of des-
olation, and left me neither brother nor sister. At the age of thir-
teen, I was sold to Mrs. Fanny Bullock, an aged lady, and she was
a widow. I had lived with her about five years, when I sought com-
forts amidst my cruel bereavements by marrying Nancy, who as well
as myself was a Methodist and a slave. She was held as the proper-
ty of Mrs. Hankins, who had one son and one daughter, who were
heirs to the property which was claimed in my wife. The daughter
was married to Thomas Hathaway, a preacher in regular connection
with the church to which Mrs. Hankins, her son and daughter, my
wife and myself were all attached. At the age of twenty, I hired
my time for sixty dollars a year, and obtained permission to have
my wife live with me in a house which I hired, on condition that I
should support her and her children in sickness and health. These
conditions I faithfully performed for fifteen years. I toiled early and
late, for I, thought I was working for my wife and children. At the
expiration of the above named term, Mr. Hathaway, my spiritual
guide, requested permission TO SELL my wife, and the children
vvhich God had given me. John Hankins, who was joint heir with \
his sister Hathaway, said he would have nothing to do with the
transaction. By this, I suppose he meant that he would do nothing
to p ivent it. The first man who came to buy, was a regular slave-
trader from Georgia, but when he learned that I had brought up my
five children which were then offered for sale, he refused to buy, un-
less I could receive half the money. Mr. Hathaway would not con-
sent to this. A purchaser soon appeared who was not so scrupulous.
He was a Methodist from Lexington, Ky. who, as he journeyed,
came to the place. He said his wife had requested him to buy a
woman who had young children, if he could do it without distressing
the husband ! ! ! He said he found my wife and children must be
sokl, and he might as well buy them' as anyone else. A bargain
was soon concluded between the clerical child-stealer and the profess-
ing plunderer. I was again alone, and what added intensity to my
suffering was the reflection, that he who had robbed me of my all,
was my teacher in the religion of a merciful Saviour, the emblems
of whose dying love I had often received from his hands. Though
Mr. Hankins objected to the sale, I have no doubt he pocketed hall
the proceeds. Anthony Gayle.
Mr. Hathaway still retained his station, as a Methodist minister ! ! !
A BOY WHO LOVED LIBERTY
A few years ago. 'a boy, about twelve years old!, came up from the
shore of the Ohio river "to the house of a colored man who lived on
its bank near Cincinnati. His feet were bloody, and his clothes
were torn, but he seemed to keep up good spirits. He was born in
Tennessee, and had been enslaved from his birth. Though he lived
two hundred and fifty miles from the Ohio river, yet lie had heard of
the free states beyond it. He was told that he would not be exactly
safe when he got there, but he could not be held in slavery, as long
as he was in a free state.
lie thought of that untried freedom, and he determined, if possible,
to gain it. He felt what slavery was, and he resolved to escape from
it. At night, when the family were all still, he walked carefully
away from the house. He went directly out of the highway, and
travelled across the fields, proceeding cautiously along, as far from
the houses as he could, for fear of being seen.
As soon as he saw the morning light, he stopped, and kept himself
concealed all day. At night he started again, and continued his
course towards the North Star. In this way he went on, for more
than forty nights. Sometimes he shrunk away from the driving
storm ; and sometimes he trembled, as the bright moonbeams fell
around him, lest he should be discovered. Part of the way lie tra-
versed gloomy forests, where he heard the dismal hooting of the
night-birds ; and, leaving these, he often found himself in the midst
of dreary swamps, where loathsome reptiles were thick about him.
His feet and legs were often scratched by the bricrs; thorns and
brambles through which he groped his way.
All this he endured, arid his heart still cheered him on with the
thought that he was escaping from that cruel bondage, the horrors
o? which, young as he was, he had already learned. He had been
told that he would not find a free state until he had crossed the broad
river. At midnight, after six weeks of painful toil, he came to the
water. He looked to the right and left till he was sure it was a
liver, and it was much broader than any he had before seen. How
djd his bosom swell as he surveyed the blue hills beyond it, and
thought of the freedom which he might there enjoy ! His long and
painful journey, and living on coarse and scanty food, had almost
exhausted his strength. But the love of liberty urged him on, and
he plunged into the water. He struggled hard to resist the down-
ward current, and his little remaining strength had almost left him,
when he gained the shore. He soon found kind friends, and was
sent to school. "What must that slavery be which could induce
so young a boy to encounter such dangers and endure such hard-
ships ?
What traitor knave could be found so base as to seize this bov, and
return him to slavery ? ALL MAGISTRATES and sheriffs, and the
whole community, are required by act of congress to be such trai-
tors, when requested by the grasping man-stealer. Have we any
thing to do with slavery ?
By an act of Congress of Feb. 12, 1793, any one harboring this boy,
[even his own mother,] after notice that he had fled from a slaveholder,
is made liable to a penalty of $500, besides damages to the claimant.
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THE MOTHER SOLD.-
Arise. my child, for see, the sun
Shines on our parting day ;
Rise from thy humble bed of moss,
For I must hence away. '
0 couldst thou sleep the sleep of -death
Ere thou wert left alone,
Then I should know thou were at peace,
And I could hardly mourn.
Wo worth the day I gave thee birth,
Since I must leave thee now,
With shackles on thy tender limbs
Aim brand upon thy brow.
Through childhood, youth, and manhood's
Thou 'It toil for others' gain ; [prime,
And down the vale of age thou 'It drag
The white man's1 heavy chain.
Yes, thou wilt wake when I am gone,
And miss thy mother's tone,
And thou wilt think that wilfully
Site left thee thus alone.
And thou wilt watch each coming day
Willi childhood's anxious tear,
To see. thy mother's glad return,
When she cannot appear.
1 cannot, will not leave thee so —
Awake, my friendless one !
-By William Comstock.
Child of a wretched mother, wake !
Awake, my orphan son !
And now he wakes and gently smiles—
My blood runs cold the while—
O why did God on fettered slaves ,
Bestow the power to smile ?
These arms no more shall hold thee fast,
This is our parting day,
For cruel traders offer gold,
And I must hence— away.
Farewell, farewell, my weeping child,—
I For, see, the white men come.
I And, brandishing the cruel scourge,
They call me from my home.
They '11 rend thy arms from round my
Our wreathed embrace divide ; [neck
With curses loud and horrible
They' 11 tear thee from my side !
Ah, God ! at thee they aim the blow,
rVIy darling, and my joy !
On me, on me wear out your scourge,
But, white men, spare my boy !
They 've borne him off, afar I go —
I hear his bitter cry ;
O Heaven, protect my friendless child,
And let his mother die !
A FEARFUL CRISIS. ■ ■
It may be, that the suicidal act. against which we are -about to re-
j monstrate in tones of horror, will have been committed, before our
j appeal can be heard by the people of the non-slaveholding states
J It may be, that, ere the introduction of the new year, tbedestiny of
•! the nation will have been sealed beyond redemption. We are writ-
| in g: this article in the month of June: in September, at the extra
i session.rof Congress which has been summoned by the president of
L'the United States, it is more than probable that the crowning act of
relational perfidy and guilt will be consummated. " If so, then how
i fearfully applicable will be the language of the prophet! — " This is
' the land to be visited ; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wicked-
ness : violence and spoil are heard in her; before me continually
are grief and wounds. Be thou instructed, iest my soul depart from
thee ; lest it make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Your cove-
nant 'with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell
shall not stand: when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
then ye shall be trodden down by it."
The calamity which threatens us, is the annexation of Texas to
the American Union. "as a slaveholding country, capable of being
divided into six or eight Statts as large as Kentucky.
The facts in this case, which ought to arrest universal attention,
are briefly these :
1. Un-til the year 1829, slavery existed in the Mexican empire, in
a mitigated and crippled state — but was then totally and immediate-
ly abolished throughout the republic by a decree of president. Guer-
rero. Tn confoxmitv to an article in the Federal Constitution. This
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noble act of philanthropy ought to have excited the warmest admira-
tion on the part of our own republic ; but, being herself wedded to
slavery, she derived no satisfaction from an example which rebuked
her in the presence of the nations. If it were scarcely to be expected I
that she would hasten to imitate this example, surely it could not be
reckoned among possible events, that she would seek to obtain a
portion of the emancipated soil of Mexico, (by treachery, fraud, ne-
gotiation, invasion and revolution, alternately,) for the purpose ot
multiplying the victims of her cupidity, and re-establishing slavery
and the slave trade, with all their bloody abominations! Yet such
has proved to be the humiliating fact.
2. As Ahab coveted Naboth's vineyard, so have the American
slaveholders looked with an evil and envious eye upon the fertile
soil of Texas, as a most "desirable acquisition. For several years
past, they have been emigrating thither, carrying their slaves with
them, and evading the decree of Mexico by indenting them as ap-
prentices for 99 years ! A host of swindlers, horse-thieves, felons
and murderers have followed in their train : — these have succeeded
in revolutionizing the country, and now claim to be classed among
the patriots of the American revolution ! Almost all their leaders
are men known to be infamous for their crimes.
3. During the last three years, enlistments of American soldiers to
revolutionize Texas have been openly made in all parts of our coun-
try, and ammunition of all kinds has been freely contributed, without
remonstrance on the part of our national executive. tanding
the solemn treaties which exist between Mexico and the
4. Upon the result of a single battle won by American invaders, the
Congress and Government of our country have recognised the inde-
pendence of the republic of Texas — a republic numbering some 30
or 40,000 inhabitants, (! ) and by the Constitution of which, Congress
has no power to emancipate slaves, nor can any slaveholder give
freedom to any slave without exiling him from the territory ; nor
is any free person of African descent permitted to reside permanently
in the republic without the consent of" Congress ; and the slave trade
is made legal between the United States and Texas!
fhe object of this unprincipled recognition is, to annex Texas to
th made a part cf
our Union — the nation involved in a war with Mexico, and probably j!
with Great Britain — northern liberty of speech, of the press, and of j
locomotion, yet more fearfully restricted— the victims of slavery j
multiplied without number, until mischief shall come upon mischief,
and rumor shall be upon rumor, and the land be full of bloody j
crimes, and wrath be upon all the people ; until the eye of God shall j
no longer spare, neither have pity — but he will recompense our ]
ways upon us, and his fury go out like fire, and burn that none can I
quench it, because of the evil of our doings. . j
Let not this warninghe disregarded, if indeed it come not too late. j
The South has not invaded and revolutionized Texas, at costly :
\ rifices of treasure and blood, for nothing; the. Constitution of Texas if
has not perpetuated slavery and the slave trade, for nothing : our gov- •
j j eminent has not openly violated the faith of treaties, for nothing ; nor |
have they hastily recognized the independence of Texas, for nothing, j
ij Mexico has not given no the contest. If we receive Texas, we must
i carry on the war, A WAR FOR CHAINS AND SLAVERY. But
j the Texan- banditti are determined to procure their annexation.—
! slaveholders have resolved that it shall be done, and they will succeed,
unless northern freemen awake NOW. ' W. L. G.\p.r.isox.
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